---
type: "Bill"
title: "Shenandoah River State Park; conveyance of easement."
description: "Shenandoah River State Park; conveyance of easement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 1059"
citation: "Virginia SB 1059 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanger"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-08"
last_action: "2023-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/03d203c6-701b-4bf1-a8b9-3b2834aa8ee9"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1059"
source_hash: "7ca6ebebad4a3c7a157541542b2a4e22689bc10588a8bab5969988dfd693c049"
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 1059 (2023) — Shenandoah River State Park; conveyance of easement.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0069** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0069)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101287D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1059)
3. **SB1059ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1059ER)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hanger — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101287D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-08** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (SB1059)
- **2023-01-17** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-20** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-23** Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-07** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-07** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-13** Passed by for the day
- **2023-02-14** Passed by for the day
- **2023-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-15** Passed House (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-20** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-20** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1059ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-20** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-21** Impact statement from DPB (SB1059ER)
- **2023-02-21** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 69 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0069)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/03d203c6-701b-4bf1-a8b9-3b2834aa8ee9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).