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type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Water Protection Permit; exception for stormwater management facility on dry land."
description: "Exempts from the requirement to obtain a Virginia Water Protection Permit any impact to a stormwater management facility on dry land. The bill directs the Department of Environmental Quality to adopt guidance to ensure that any project claiming this exemption creates no more than minimal ecological impact."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 377"
citation: "Virginia HB 377 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Waters of the State", "Ports and Harbors"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David L. Bulova"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-01-05"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69adc730-1797-414e-8de7-5a307b9e8d27"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB377"
source_hash: "36c653b634aebdb1d3cf958a4cb45a9ed00f8bd54fcc1f16707531e2a4dc2be6"
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 377 (2018) — Virginia Water Protection Permit; exception for stormwater management facility on dry land.
Exempts from the requirement to obtain a Virginia Water Protection Permit any impact to a stormwater management facility on dry land. The bill directs the Department of Environmental Quality to adopt guidance to ensure that any project claiming this exemption creates no more than minimal ecological impact.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB377ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB377ER)
2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104333D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB377)
3. **House: Printed as engrossed 18104333D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB377E)
## Votes
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendments — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — **100** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- David L. Bulova — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104333D `introduction`
- **2018-01-05** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-15** Assigned ACNRsub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-05** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2018-02-05** Engrossed by House as amended HB377E
- **2018-02-05** Printed as engrossed 18104333D-E
- **2018-02-06** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-07** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-22** Enrolled
- **2018-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 114 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/69adc730-1797-414e-8de7-5a307b9e8d27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).