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type: "Bill"
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title: "Agricultural operations; nuisance."
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description: "Requires agricultural operations to be in substantial compliance, defined in the bill, with applicable laws, regulations, and best management practices in order to be exempt from becoming a public or private nuisance. The bill prohibits a person from bringing a nuisance action against any agricultural operation the existence of which was known or reasonably knowable when that person's use or occupancy of his property began. The bill also prohibits anyone other than a person with an ownership interest in the affected property from bringing an action for private nuisance and sets out certain limitations on recovery for compensatory damages. This bill is identical to"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2018"
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identifier: "HB 987"
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citation: "Virginia HB 987 (2018)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Agriculture", "Animal Care and Food", "Nuisances"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["C. Todd Gilbert"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 17
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2018-01-09"
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last_action: "2018-03-02"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5558122f-14bf-44e0-8b28-f81b2fc72932"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB987"
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source_hash: "e3b38ed96fc221693e9204256aebeb778c9d0caa851809f10744bb8575a7cdf5"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 987 (2018) — Agricultural operations; nuisance.
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Requires agricultural operations to be in substantial compliance, defined in the bill, with applicable laws, regulations, and best management practices in order to be exempt from becoming a public or private nuisance. The bill prohibits a person from bringing a nuisance action against any agricultural operation the existence of which was known or reasonably knowable when that person's use or occupancy of his property began. The bill also prohibits anyone other than a person with an ownership interest in the affected property from bringing an action for private nuisance and sets out certain limitations on recovery for compensatory damages. This bill is identical to
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB987ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB987ER)
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2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102813D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB987)
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3. **House: Printed as engrossed 18102813D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB987E)
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## Votes
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- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendment — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Read third time and passed House — **97–2** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- C. Todd Gilbert — primary (person)
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- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
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- Barry D. Knight — cosponsor (person)
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- C. Matthew Fariss — cosponsor (person)
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- Charles D. Poindexter — cosponsor (person)
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- Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
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- Daniel W. Marshall, III — cosponsor (person)
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- James E. Edmunds, II — cosponsor (person)
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- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
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- Matthew James — cosponsor (person)
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- Michael J. Webert — cosponsor (person)
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- R. Lee Ware — cosponsor (person)
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- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
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- Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
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- Robert S. Bloxom, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
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- Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)
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- Roxann L. Robinson — cosponsor (person)
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- Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
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- Tony O. Wilt — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102813D `introduction`
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- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
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- **2018-01-26** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2018-01-29** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2018-01-29** Committee amendment agreed to
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- **2018-01-29** Engrossed by House as amended HB987E
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- **2018-01-29** Printed as engrossed 18102813D-E
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- **2018-01-30** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 2-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2018-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2018-01-31** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
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- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2018-02-22** Enrolled
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- **2018-02-22** Signed by Speaker
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- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
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- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
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- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
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- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 147 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5558122f-14bf-44e0-8b28-f81b2fc72932`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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