---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local stormwater assistance; flood mitigation and protection."
description: "Local stormwater assistance; flood mitigation and protection. Authorizes grants from a local Stormwater Management Fund to be used for flood mitigation and protection measures that are part of a comprehensive flood mitigation and protection plan adopted by the locality, and requires such grants, where practicable, to prioritize projects that include nature-based practices. Current law allows such funds to be used only for the construction, improvement, or repair of a stormwater management facility or for erosion and sediment control."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1309"
citation: "Virginia SB 1309 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adam P. Ebbin"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aba5dc6c-314b-4bb7-84e5-0b245f88948e"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1309"
source_hash: "d8c3825b67049628d46fcf785927599701a1c6cab308cf6ac56508423c989e79"
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 1309 (2021) — Local stormwater assistance; flood mitigation and protection.

Local stormwater assistance; flood mitigation and protection. Authorizes grants from a local Stormwater Management Fund to be used for flood mitigation and protection measures that are part of a comprehensive flood mitigation and protection plan adopted by the locality, and requires such grants, where practicable, to prioritize projects that include nature-based practices. Current law allows such funds to be used only for the construction, improvement, or repair of a stormwater management facility or for erosion and sediment control.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0380** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0380)
2. **Committee substitute printed 21103219D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1309S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102847D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1309)
4. **SB1309ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1309ER)

## Votes

- Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Local Government with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — **14–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Adam P. Ebbin — primary (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102847D `introduction`
- **2021-01-12** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-18** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-01-18** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-01-18** Reported from Local Government with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-18** Committee substitute printed 21103219D-S1 `substitution`
- **2021-01-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-20** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-01-20** Reading of substitute waived
- **2021-01-20** Committee substitute agreed to 21103219D-S1
- **2021-01-20** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1309S1
- **2021-01-21** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-02** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-02** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns
- **2021-02-12** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-17** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-17** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-19** Enrolled
- **2021-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
- **2021-02-24** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 24, 2021
- **2021-02-24** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-25** Approved by Governor-Chapter 380 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aba5dc6c-314b-4bb7-84e5-0b245f88948e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).