---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mineral mining; increases permit fees."
description: "Provides a schedule for increases to fees a mining operator must pay when applying for a mining operation permit renewal, raising the current fee of $16 per disturbed acre by $2 each year from July 1, 2019, through July 1, 2022."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1932"
citation: "Virginia HB 1932 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Mines and Mining"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Lee Ware"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2019-01-05"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cda97029-111d-4f00-bf00-92e131fc7593"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1932"
source_hash: "5917ba851f640fd7371a31dc55e8457e9ed4964cd25e026ee881610ca9fe4429"
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 1932 (2019) — Mineral mining; increases permit fees.

Provides a schedule for increases to fees a mining operator must pay when applying for a mining operation permit renewal, raising the current fee of $16 per disturbed acre by $2 each year from July 1, 2019, through July 1, 2022.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0538)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0538)
2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB1932)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1932ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1932ER)
4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19105022D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1932H1)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102069D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1932)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House — **93–4** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **6–1** (pass) · lower
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — **13–1** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **31–8** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute — **21–1** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **33–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- R. Lee Ware — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102069D `introduction`
- **2019-01-05** 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 19105022D-H1
- **2019-02-01** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1932H1
- **2019-02-04** Read third time and passed House (93-Y 4-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-05** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-15** Enrolled
- **2019-02-15** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-15** Signed by President
- **2019-02-19** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 19, 2019
- **2019-02-19** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 538 (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/cda97029-111d-4f00-bf00-92e131fc7593`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).