republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-1597.md

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Bill	Stormwater management utility, local; waiver of charges when stormwater retained on site.	Requires any locality establishing a stormwater management utility to provide a full or partial waiver of charges for a person whose approved stormwater management plan indicates that the stormwater produced by his property is retained and treated on site.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 1597	Virginia HB 1597 (2017)	bill	Conservation Counties Cities and Towns	enacted	Michael J. Webert	4	18	6	2017-01-02	2017-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/ea0edb9e-8dc2-4b43-86e9-c129415dc8bc	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1597	8bb0ae8f73812e15d3b867509980711dec9ce15207d46ffd5457a129d8becc8b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1597 (2017) — Stormwater management utility, local; waiver of charges when stormwater retained on site.

Requires any locality establishing a stormwater management utility to provide a full or partial waiver of charges for a person whose approved stormwater management plan indicates that the stormwater produced by his property is retained and treated on site.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0375) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1597ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102615D (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Printed as engrossed 17102615D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Local Government — 13–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House — 93–4 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 7–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendments — 20–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Michael J. Webert — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-02 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102615D introduction
• 2017-01-02 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2017-01-12 Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2017-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-01-31 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2017-01-31 Engrossed by House as amended HB1597E
• 2017-01-31 Printed as engrossed 17102615D-E
• 2017-02-01 Read third time and passed House (93-Y 4-N 1-A) passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-02-02 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2017-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-21 Enrolled
• 2017-02-21 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-21 Signed by President
• 2017-02-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
• 2017-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-13 Approved by Governor-Chapter 375 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ea0edb9e-8dc2-4b43-86e9-c129415dc8bc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).