---
type: "Bill"
title: "Onsite sewage treatment systems; VDH shall develop a plan for oversight and enforcement."
description: "Onsite sewage treatment systems; VDH shall develop a plan for oversight and enforcement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2322"
citation: "Virginia HB 2322 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Water and Sewer Systems"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Keith Hodges"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/caf591f0-2407-410f-bd16-02eedf9e93e0"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2322"
source_hash: "5d0e49ec1e077d35e0f4dfb411e623ce76af323893566188eee358247e469381"
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 2322 (2019) — Onsite sewage treatment systems; VDH shall develop a plan for oversight and enforcement.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0429)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0429)
2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2322AH)
3. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB2322)
4. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2322ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2322ER)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102316D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2322)
6. **House: Printed as engrossed 19102316D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2322E)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- M. Keith Hodges — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102316D `introduction`
- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-29** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-29** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2019-01-29** Engrossed by House as amended HB2322E
- **2019-01-29** Printed as engrossed 19102316D-E
- **2019-01-30** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-30** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2019-01-30** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2019-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-31** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled
- **2019-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-21** Signed by President
- **2019-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
- **2019-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 429 (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/caf591f0-2407-410f-bd16-02eedf9e93e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).