republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-1774.md

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Bill	Stormwater management; work group to examine ways to improve.	Directs the Commonwealth Center for Recurrent Flooding Resiliency (the Center) to convene a work group to consider alternative methods of stormwater management in rural Tidewater localities. The bill provides that the group is to be facilitated by the Virginia Coastal Policy Center at William and Mary Law School and is to include representatives of institutions of higher education, state agencies, local governments, private industry, and other groups. The bill provides that the work group is to review and consider the creation of rural development growth areas, the development of a volume credit program, the payment of fees to support regional best management practices, and the allowance of the use of stormwater in highway ditches to generate volume credits. The bill requires the Center to report the results of the work group's examination to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources by January 1, 2018, which is the date the work group provisions of the bill are set to expire. The bill also delays from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2018, the effective date of new stormwater laws enacted during the 2016 Session of the General Assembly.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 1774	Virginia HB 1774 (2017)	bill	Conservation Study Commissions Committees and Reports Tidewater Virginia Waters of the State Ports and Harbors	enacted	M. Keith Hodges	4	18	8	2017-01-09	2017-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/e40863a2-5e84-48a3-a6b1-7fd6a169f5ee	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1774	358d9ba495593e4ddab42f17f77fc8b46e46efdb9957407decab75ada56ee88b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1774 (2017) — Stormwater management; work group to examine ways to improve.

Directs the Commonwealth Center for Recurrent Flooding Resiliency (the Center) to convene a work group to consider alternative methods of stormwater management in rural Tidewater localities. The bill provides that the group is to be facilitated by the Virginia Coastal Policy Center at William and Mary Law School and is to include representatives of institutions of higher education, state agencies, local governments, private industry, and other groups. The bill provides that the work group is to review and consider the creation of rural development growth areas, the development of a volume credit program, the payment of fees to support regional best management practices, and the allowance of the use of stormwater in highway ditches to generate volume credits. The bill requires the Center to report the results of the work group's examination to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources by January 1, 2018, which is the date the work group provisions of the bill are set to expire. The bill also delays from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2018, the effective date of new stormwater laws enacted during the 2016 Session of the General Assembly.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0345) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1774ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Committee substitute printed 17104811D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103565D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — 12–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 7–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• M. Keith Hodges — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103565D introduction
• 2017-01-09 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2017-01-12 Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake referral-committee
• 2017-01-26 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 2017-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-03 Committee substitute agreed to 17104811D-H1
• 2017-02-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1774H1
• 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 345 (effective - see bill) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e40863a2-5e84-48a3-a6b1-7fd6a169f5ee. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).