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Bill Environmental Quality, Department of; definition of environmental justice. Department of Environmental Quality; environmentaljustice. Provides that one of the purposes of the Departmentof Environmental Quality is to further environmental justice, asdefined in the bill. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2020 HB 1162 Virginia HB 1162 (2020)
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Virginia HB 1162 (2020) — Environmental Quality, Department of; definition of environmental justice.

Department of Environmental Quality; environmentaljustice. Provides that one of the purposes of the Departmentof Environmental Quality is to further environmental justice, asdefined in the bill.

Version chain

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

  1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0454) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1162ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. Impact statement from DPB (HB1162) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N) — 5444 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (8-Y 6-N) — 86 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate with amendment (21-Y 19-N) — 2119 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N) — 53 (pass) · lower
  • VOTE: Adoption (53-Y 43-N) — 5243 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (13-Y 9-N) — 139 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Alfonso H. Lopez — primary (person)
  • Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
  • Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
  • Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101702D introduction
  • 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
  • 2020-01-14 Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources referral-committee
  • 2020-01-23 Impact statement from DPB (HB1162)
  • 2020-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
  • 2020-02-05 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (13-Y 9-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-02-06 Read first time reading-1
  • 2020-02-07 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2020-02-10 Read third time and passed House (55-Y 44-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2020-02-10 VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N)
  • 2020-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2020-02-11 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
  • 2020-02-18 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (8-Y 6-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-02-20 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-02-21 Passed by for the day
  • 2020-02-24 Read third time reading-3
  • 2020-02-24 Reading of amendment waived
  • 2020-02-24 Committee amendment agreed to
  • 2020-02-24 Engrossed by Senate as amended
  • 2020-02-24 Passed Senate with amendment (21-Y 19-N) passage
  • 2020-02-26 Placed on Calendar
  • 2020-02-26 Senate amendment agreed to by House (53-Y 43-N)
  • 2020-02-26 VOTE: Adoption (53-Y 43-N)
  • 2020-03-03 Enrolled
  • 2020-03-03 Impact statement from DPB (HB1162ER)
  • 2020-03-03 Signed by Speaker
  • 2020-03-04 Signed by President
  • 2020-03-12 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
  • 2020-03-12 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
  • 2020-03-25 Approved by Governor-Chapter 454 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7ff45ef2-bbed-4a3e-95b5-c0a7648f18a4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).