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type: "Bill"
title: "Stormwater management utility, local; waiver of charges when stormwater retained on site."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1597"
citation: "Virginia HB 1597 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Conservation", "Counties", "Cities and Towns"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael J. Webert"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-02"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ea0edb9e-8dc2-4b43-86e9-c129415dc8bc"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1597"
source_hash: "8bb0ae8f73812e15d3b867509980711dec9ce15207d46ffd5457a129d8becc8b"
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 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](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0375)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1597ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1597ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102615D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1597)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17102615D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1597E)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Local Government — **130** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **934** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **70** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendments — **200** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ea0edb9e-8dc2-4b43-86e9-c129415dc8bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).