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type: "Bill"
title: "Landfills; DEQ, et al., to work towards odor reduction in Campbell County."
description: "Directs the Department of Environmental Quality and the Region 2000 Services Authority (the Authority) to continue to reduce the odor issues at the landfill operated by the Authority in Campbell County and to report on their efforts to the Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by November 1, 2017. The bill also requires the Authority to connect certain parts of its landfill gas collection system to the existing collection system when its engineers advise it that the connections will operate efficiently."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1600"
citation: "Virginia HB 1600 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Authorities", "Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports", "Waste Disposal"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Matthew Fariss"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9cb52ed3-9aed-42bc-b943-95f42be83b86"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1600"
source_hash: "6797d6bc593afc44d0cc8516d08a61383eec0d3f3a7b921ad24c95c3aa402b6e"
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 1600 (2017) — Landfills; DEQ, et al., to work towards odor reduction in Campbell County.
Directs the Department of Environmental Quality and the Region 2000 Services Authority (the Authority) to continue to reduce the odor issues at the landfill operated by the Authority in Campbell County and to report on their efforts to the Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by November 1, 2017. The bill also requires the Authority to connect certain parts of its landfill gas collection system to the existing collection system when its engineers advise it that the connections will operate efficiently.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0341)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0341)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1600ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1600ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17104800D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1600H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101973D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1600)
## Votes
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **970** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute — **210** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **90** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- C. Matthew Fariss — primary (person)
- Rick L. Morris — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101973D `introduction`
- **2017-01-03** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-12** Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-03** Committee substitute agreed to 17104800D-H1
- **2017-02-03** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1600H1
- **2017-02-06** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-07** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-24** Enrolled
- **2017-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 341 (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/9cb52ed3-9aed-42bc-b943-95f42be83b86`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).