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type: "Bill"
title: "Environmental Quality, Department of; public comment."
description: "State Air Pollution Control Board; public notification. Requires that the Air Pollution Control Board require the applicant to take certain public notice actions, prior to granting any variance to an existing regulation or issuing any permit for (i) a new fossil fuel-fired generating facility with a capacity of 500 megawatts or more, (ii) a major modification to an existing source that is a fossil fuel-fired generating facility with a capacity of 500 megawatts or more, (iii) a new fossil fuel-fired compressor station facility used to transport natural gas, or (iv) a major modification to an existing source that is a fossil fuel-fired compressor station facility used to transport natural gas, if the Board finds that there is a locality particularly affected by such variance or permit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 1075"
citation: "Virginia SB 1075 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer L. McClellan"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 56
vote_count: 16
first_action: "2020-01-17"
last_action: "2020-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f1f3f3b1-f8fd-4d7a-bf34-285323b25543"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB1075"
source_hash: "0096562be8122e41d76556a0ab35a9425424e8c689cd4a27a5993d142a450d77"
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 SB 1075 (2020) — Environmental Quality, Department of; public comment.
State Air Pollution Control Board; public notification. Requires that the Air Pollution Control Board require the applicant to take certain public notice actions, prior to granting any variance to an existing regulation or issuing any permit for (i) a new fossil fuel-fired generating facility with a capacity of 500 megawatts or more, (ii) a major modification to an existing source that is a fossil fuel-fired generating facility with a capacity of 500 megawatts or more, (iii) a new fossil fuel-fired compressor station facility used to transport natural gas, or (iv) a major modification to an existing source that is a fossil fuel-fired compressor station facility used to transport natural gas, if the Board finds that there is a locality particularly affected by such variance or permit.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1110)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP1110)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1075ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB1075ER)
3. **Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1075H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB1075H1)
4. **Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB1075ES1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB1075ES1)
5. **Impact statement from DPB (SB1075S2)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB1075S2)
6. **SB1075S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB1075S1)
## Votes
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (15-Y 7-N) — **157** (pass) · lower
- Conference report agreed to by Senate (29-Y 10-N) — **2910** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (60-Y 40-N) — **5940** (pass) · lower
- Senate acceded to request (37-Y 1-N) — **371** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (16-Y 0-N) — **160** (pass) · upper
- House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N) — **040** (fail) · upper
- Reconsideration of conference report agreed to by Senate (35-Y 3-N) — **353** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — **70** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) — **360** (pass) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by Senate (33-Y 5-N) — **335** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (56-Y 39-N) — **5539** (pass) · lower
- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Jennifer L. McClellan — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-17** Presented and ordered printed 20104770D `introduction`
- **2020-01-17** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Impact statement from DPB (SB1075)
- **2020-02-04** Committee substitute printed 20107674D-S1 `substitution`
- **2020-02-04** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-04** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-06** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-11** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-11** Reading of substitute waived
- **2020-02-11** Committee substitute agreed to 20107674D-S1
- **2020-02-11** Reading of amendment waived
- **2020-02-11** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2020-02-11** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB1075ES1
- **2020-02-11** Printed as engrossed 20107674D-ES1
- **2020-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-11** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-11** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-11** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-14** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-14** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-14** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-17** Impact statement from DPB (SB1075ES1)
- **2020-02-24** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-02-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-26** Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (15-Y 7-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-26** Committee substitute printed 20108993D-H1 `substitution`
- **2020-02-28** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-02** Committee substitute agreed to 20108993D-H1
- **2020-03-02** Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1075H1
- **2020-03-02** Passed House with substitute (60-Y 40-N) `passage`
- **2020-03-02** VOTE: Passage (60-Y 40-N)
- **2020-03-03** House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N)
- **2020-03-03** Impact statement from DPB (SB1075H1)
- **2020-03-04** House insisted on substitute
- **2020-03-04** House requested conference committee
- **2020-03-05** Senate acceded to request (37-Y 1-N)
- **2020-03-05** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2020-03-05** Conferees appointed by House
- **2020-03-07** Amended by conference committee
- **2020-03-07** Conference substitute printed 20109847D-S2
- **2020-03-07** Conference report agreed to by Senate (33-Y 5-N)
- **2020-03-07** Reconsideration of conference report agreed to by Senate (35-Y 3-N)
- **2020-03-07** Conference report agreed to by Senate (29-Y 10-N)
- **2020-03-08** Conference report agreed to by House (56-Y 39-N)
- **2020-03-08** VOTE: Adoption (56-Y 39-N)
- **2020-03-11** Impact statement from DPB (SB1075S2)
- **2020-03-18** Enrolled
- **2020-03-18** Signed by President
- **2020-03-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-20** Impact statement from DPB (SB1075ER)
- **2020-03-20** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
- **2020-03-20** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-04-10** Approved by Governor-Chapter 1110 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f1f3f3b1-f8fd-4d7a-bf34-285323b25543`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).