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type: "Bill"
title: "Scenic river designations; consolidates provisions of Scenic Rivers Act."
description: "Consolidates provisions of the Scenic Rivers Act relating to prohibitions on the construction of dams and limits on the effects of the Act. The bill contains technical amendments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 866"
citation: "Virginia HB 866 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Conservation", "Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Waters of the State", "Ports and Harbors"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert D. Orrock, Sr."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c06d8180-68e0-4be1-ac3e-a90e7971ff02"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB866"
source_hash: "ab38dcf58bf599f688269290767fef65cecc586eebfb3650f7b4ef9f31a3137c"
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 866 (2018) — Scenic river designations; consolidates provisions of Scenic Rivers Act.
Consolidates provisions of the Scenic Rivers Act relating to prohibitions on the construction of dams and limits on the effects of the Act. The bill contains technical amendments.
## 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 (HB866ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB866ER)
2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100023D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB866)
## Votes
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendments — **131** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendments — **346** (pass) · legislature
- Senate amendments agreed to by House — **935** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **80** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **945** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100023D `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-23** Assigned ACNR sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-05** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-06** Read third time and passed House (94-Y 5-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`
- **2018-02-20** Reading of amendments waived
- **2018-02-20** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2018-02-20** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2018-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-02-22** Senate amendments agreed to by House (93-Y 5-N)
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 273 (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/c06d8180-68e0-4be1-ac3e-a90e7971ff02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).