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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Forest Sustainability Fund; created."
+description: "Land use valuation for real estate devoted to forest use; creation of Forest Sustainability Fund. Creates the Forest Sustainability Fund, to be administered by the State Forester. Localities that have adopted a use value assessment and taxation program for real estate devoted to forest use are eligible to apply for an allocation from the Fund. Awards are proportionally based upon the amount of revenue forgone in the previous fiscal year by localities due to the use value program. This bill is identical to HB 180."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 184"
+citation: "Virginia SB 184 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Frank M. Ruff, Jr."]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2022-01-10"
+last_action: "2022-04-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9538b7a-63e0-4e6e-9d18-5d79788d2151"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB184"
+source_hash: "cd254bcf4e279efe2b08c5090394dedb3bec0e5f6d317e8bb86beaed00b1bb5e"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia SB 184 (2022) — Forest Sustainability Fund; created.
+
+Land use valuation for real estate devoted to forest use; creation of Forest Sustainability Fund. Creates the Forest Sustainability Fund, to be administered by the State Forester. Localities that have adopted a use value assessment and taxation program for real estate devoted to forest use are eligible to apply for an allocation from the Fund. Awards are proportionally based upon the amount of revenue forgone in the previous fiscal year by localities due to the use value program. This bill is identical to HB 180.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0379** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0379)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101775D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB184)
+3. **SB184ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB184ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **16–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (84-Y 12-N 2-A) — **84–11** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Finance (17-Y 3-N) — **17–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Frank M. Ruff, Jr. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101775D `introduction`
+- **2022-01-10** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-25** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-01-26** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-01-27** Impact statement from DPB (SB184)
+- **2022-01-27** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-01-28** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
+- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-23** Reported from Finance (17-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-25** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2022-02-28** Passed House (84-Y 12-N 2-A) `passage`
+- **2022-02-28** VOTE: Passage (84-Y 12-N 2-A)
+- **2022-03-02** Enrolled
+- **2022-03-02** Signed by Speaker
+- **2022-03-03** Signed by President
+- **2022-03-07** Impact statement from DPB (SB184ER)
+- **2022-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
+- **2022-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
+- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 379 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f9538b7a-63e0-4e6e-9d18-5d79788d2151`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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