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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Aquaculture; right to use and occupy the ground for the terms of a lease in Chesapeake Bay waters."
+description: "Right to aquaculture. Provides that the right to use and occupy the ground for the terms of a lease in Chesapeake Bay waters includes the right to propagate shellfish by whatever legal means necessary. This bill is identical to HB 189."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 509"
+citation: "Virginia SB 509 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Richard H. Stuart"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2022-01-12"
+last_action: "2022-04-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32f2e04e-015f-4803-931d-689cba43489c"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB509"
+source_hash: "a45c614e453cf93460bb0d85a2e791faf61ca85d846962fada2a155067dbab06"
+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 509 (2022) — Aquaculture; right to use and occupy the ground for the terms of a lease in Chesapeake Bay waters.
+
+Right to aquaculture. Provides that the right to use and occupy the ground for the terms of a lease in Chesapeake Bay waters includes the right to propagate shellfish by whatever legal means necessary. This bill is identical to HB 189.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0036** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0036)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101827D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB509)
+3. **SB509ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB509ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Richard H. Stuart — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101827D `introduction`
+- **2022-01-12** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (SB509)
+- **2022-01-25** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-01-31** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-02-21** Placed on Calendar
+- **2022-02-21** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-21** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-23** Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-25** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2022-02-28** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2022-02-28** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-03-02** Enrolled
+- **2022-03-02** Signed by Speaker
+- **2022-03-03** Impact statement from DPB (SB509ER)
+- **2022-03-03** Signed by President
+- **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
+- **2022-04-01** Approved by Governor-Chapter 36 (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/32f2e04e-015f-4803-931d-689cba43489c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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