---
type: "Bill"
title: "Nutrient credit stream restoration projects; use of third-party long-term stewards."
description: "Nutrient credit stream restoration projects;use of third-party long-term stewards. Authorizes the Departmentof Environmental Quality to allow the use of third-party long-termstewards to hold and manage the long-term management fund to maintainstream restoration projects."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 188"
citation: "Virginia SB 188 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Emmett W. Hanger, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-01-10"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5a0dc7a-a3cf-4912-818b-476a559f6afd"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB188"
source_hash: "22c90480bf610ac6caf035603f26b1cb3daca958ee984279186fe2e91f4a1098"
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 188 (2022) — Nutrient credit stream restoration projects; use of third-party long-term stewards.

Nutrient credit stream restoration projects;use of third-party long-term stewards. Authorizes the Departmentof Environmental Quality to allow the use of third-party long-termstewards to hold and manage the long-term management fund to maintainstream restoration projects.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0422** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0422)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101103D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB188)
3. **SB188ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB188ER)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. — primary (person)
- Joseph D. Morrissey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101103D `introduction`
- **2022-01-10** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** Impact statement from DPB (SB188)
- **2022-02-08** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-09** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-10** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-10** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-02** Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-07** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-07** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-07** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-10** Enrolled
- **2022-03-10** Signed by President
- **2022-03-10** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-15** Impact statement from DPB (SB188ER)
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 422 (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/f5a0dc7a-a3cf-4912-818b-476a559f6afd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).