republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-1740.md

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Bill	Sanitary districts; creation by board of supervisors.	Transfers authority to create or enlarge sanitary districts from the circuit court with jurisdiction over the locality in which the district is located to the governing body of the county in which the district is located. The bill requires the governing body, at a hearing for the creation or enlargement of a sanitary district, to make a finding of fact of whether the action is necessary, practical, fiscally responsible, and supported by at least 50 percent of persons who own real property in (i) the proposed district or (ii) in the case of enlargement, the area proposed to be included in the existing district. The bill also requires a minimum standard regarding timeliness for hearings.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 1740	Virginia HB 1740 (2017)	bill	Counties Cities and Towns Drainage Soil Conservation Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts	enacted	J. Randall Minchew	4	20	7	2017-01-08	2017-02-17	openstates	ocd-bill/5c2bfa56-2976-4ed5-8fe6-9d73e8845b2f	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1740	630278976650766d99ae6c26a8f7b0fc98881e47c5196554cb7260fb24524598	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1740 (2017) — Sanitary districts; creation by board of supervisors.

Transfers authority to create or enlarge sanitary districts from the circuit court with jurisdiction over the locality in which the district is located to the governing body of the county in which the district is located. The bill requires the governing body, at a hearing for the creation or enlargement of a sanitary district, to make a finding of fact of whether the action is necessary, practical, fiscally responsible, and supported by at least 50 percent of persons who own real property in (i) the proposed district or (ii) in the case of enlargement, the area proposed to be included in the existing district. The bill also requires a minimum standard regarding timeliness for hearings.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0014) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1740ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102826D (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104956D-S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House — 95–2 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate with substitute — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — 21–1 (pass) · legislature
• Senate substitute agreed to by House 17104956D-S1 — 98–1 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 6–1 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• J. Randall Minchew — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102826D introduction
• 2017-01-08 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2017-01-12 Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2017-01-26 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-01-27 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2017-01-30 Read third time and passed House (95-Y 2-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-01-31 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2017-02-07 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-07 Reading of substitute waived
• 2017-02-07 Committee substitute agreed to 17104956D-S1
• 2017-02-07 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1740S1
• 2017-02-09 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-02-09 Senate substitute agreed to by House 17104956D-S1 (98-Y 1-N)
• 2017-02-13 Enrolled
• 2017-02-13 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-13 Signed by President
• 2017-02-14 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/14/17
• 2017-02-14 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2017
• 2017-02-17 Approved by Governor-Chapter 14 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5c2bfa56-2976-4ed5-8fe6-9d73e8845b2f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).