republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-2811.md

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Bill	Tax-exempt pollution control facilities; adds Va. Dept. of Health as a certifying authority.	Adds to the duties of the Virginia Department of Health the duty of serving as a state certifying authority in determining conformity with state requirements for certain tax-exempt water pollution control projects. Under current law, the State Water Control Board is the only state certifying authority for water pollution projects. The bill contains an emergency clause.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 2811	Virginia HB 2811 (2019)	bill	Emergency Legislation Taxation	enacted	Michael J. Webert	4	17	5	2019-01-23	2019-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/72d11986-9051-438e-b060-4ccc8b48d11f	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2811	e198e86255aca3f6de4578ed5dd2cd53d68bb7f6818ed7c2e45dc61bddf63de1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2811 (2019) — Tax-exempt pollution control facilities; adds Va. Dept. of Health as a certifying authority.

Adds to the duties of the Virginia Department of Health the duty of serving as a state certifying authority in determining conformity with state requirements for certain tax-exempt water pollution control projects. Under current law, the State Water Control Board is the only state certifying authority for water pollution projects. The bill contains an emergency clause.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0441) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2811ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Committee substitute printed 19106140D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Presented and ordered printed 19105240D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance with substitute — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Michael J. Webert — primary (person)
• Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-23 Unanimous consent to introduce
• 2019-01-23 Presented and ordered printed 19105240D introduction
• 2019-01-23 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2019-02-01 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-02-04 Read second time reading-2
• 2019-02-04 Committee substitute agreed to 19106140D-H1
• 2019-02-04 Emergency clause added
• 2019-02-04 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2811H1
• 2019-02-05 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-02-06 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2019-02-19 Enrolled
• 2019-02-19 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-20 Signed by President
• 2019-02-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
• 2019-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
• 2019-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 441 (effective 3/18/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/72d11986-9051-438e-b060-4ccc8b48d11f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).