---
type: "Bill"
title: "New Kent County; Department of Forestry's conveyance of easement."
description: "Authorizes the conveyance of a right-of-way easement from the Department of Forestry to John D. Tolley and Laurie L. Tolley. The easement, which will follow an existing road across a portion of the New Kent Forestry Center, will allow ingress and egress from State Route 60 to the Tolleys' property."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2016"
citation: "Virginia HB 2016 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Property and Conveyances"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher K. Peace"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-01-07"
last_action: "2019-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e486bcc-af4e-4456-a731-e26fe2f32d9a"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2016"
source_hash: "f62a75dfb12f9ccd2212aa01bc41b367f7aa1d0d206434941b70f2fd480f8da9"
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 HB 2016 (2019) — New Kent County; Department of Forestry's conveyance of easement.

Authorizes the conveyance of a right-of-way easement from the Department of Forestry to John D. Tolley and Laurie L. Tolley. The easement, which will follow an existing road across a portion of the New Kent Forestry Center, will allow ingress and egress from State Route 60 to the Tolleys' property.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0186)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0186)
2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB2016)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2016ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2016ER)
4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19105027D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2016H1)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102042D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2016)

## Votes

- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Christopher K. Peace — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102042D `introduction`
- **2019-01-07** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Assigned ACNR sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-01** Committee substitute agreed to 19105027D-H1
- **2019-02-01** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2016H1
- **2019-02-04** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2019-02-04** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2019-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-05** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** Passed by for the day
- **2019-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** Enrolled
- **2019-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
- **2019-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 186 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4e486bcc-af4e-4456-a731-e26fe2f32d9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).