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Bill Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund; loan and grant program. Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund; loan and grant program. Continues the Virginia Shoreline Resiliency Fund as the Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund, providing that the Fund shall include all sums that are deposited from revenue generated by the sale of emissions allowances and are designated to assist localities affected by recurrent flooding, sea level rise, and flooding from severe weather events. The bill directs the Virginia Resources Authority to manage the Fund and the Department of Conservation and Recreation to administer the Fund. The measure authorizes the Authority to manage the Fund in accordance with a memorandum of agreement with the Department and to pledge the assets of the Fund as security for any bonds issued to finance flood prevention or protection projects. The bill authorizes localities to lend or grant money from the Fund to implement flood prevention and protection projects and studies, requiring that at least 25 percent of the money disbursed from the Fund each year be used for projects in low-income geographic areas. The measure also authorizes any locality to forgive the principal of a loan it grants in a low-income geographic area so long as the total amount of loans forgiven by all localities does not exceed 30 percent of the amount appropriated to the Fund during the fiscal year. The bill provides that any locality that forgives such a loan remains obligated to pay the principal to the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to HB 22. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2020 SB 320 Virginia SB 320 (2020)
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Virginia SB 320 (2020) — Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund; loan and grant program.

Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund; loan and grant program. Continues the Virginia Shoreline Resiliency Fund as the Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund, providing that the Fund shall include all sums that are deposited from revenue generated by the sale of emissions allowances and are designated to assist localities affected by recurrent flooding, sea level rise, and flooding from severe weather events. The bill directs the Virginia Resources Authority to manage the Fund and the Department of Conservation and Recreation to administer the Fund. The measure authorizes the Authority to manage the Fund in accordance with a memorandum of agreement with the Department and to pledge the assets of the Fund as security for any bonds issued to finance flood prevention or protection projects. The bill authorizes localities to lend or grant money from the Fund to implement flood prevention and protection projects and studies, requiring that at least 25 percent of the money disbursed from the Fund each year be used for projects in low-income geographic areas. The measure also authorizes any locality to forgive the principal of a loan it grants in a low-income geographic area so long as the total amount of loans forgiven by all localities does not exceed 30 percent of the amount appropriated to the Fund during the fiscal year. The bill provides that any locality that forgives such a loan remains obligated to pay the principal to the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to HB 22.

Version chain

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

  1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1254) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB320ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB320S2 (committee substitute) — source
  4. Impact statement from DPB (SB320) (committee substitute) — source
  5. Reenrolled bill text (SB320ER2) (committee substitute) — source
  6. SB320S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) — 360 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (39-Y 1-N) — 391 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (16-Y 0-N) — 160 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Adoption #2 (58-Y 34-N) — 5734 (pass) · lower
  • Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 980 (pass) · lower
  • VOTE: Adoption (75-Y 17-N) — 7417 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. — primary (person)
  • Alex Q. Askew — cosponsor (person)
  • Martha M. Mugler — cosponsor (person)
  • T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2020-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103519D introduction
  • 2020-01-06 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
  • 2020-01-21 Impact statement from DPB (SB320)
  • 2020-01-28 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-01-28 Committee substitute printed 20106966D-S1 substitution
  • 2020-01-28 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 Floor substitute printed 20108073D-S2 (Lewis)
  • 2020-02-11 Read second time reading-2
  • 2020-02-11 Committee substitute rejected 20106966D-S1
  • 2020-02-11 Committee amendment rejected
  • 2020-02-11 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2020-02-11 Substitute by Senator Lewis agreed to 20108073D-S2
  • 2020-02-11 Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB320S2
  • 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
  • 2020-02-21 Impact statement from DPB (SB320S2)
  • 2020-02-24 Placed on Calendar
  • 2020-02-24 Read first time reading-1
  • 2020-02-24 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
  • 2020-02-26 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-02-28 Read second time reading-2
  • 2020-03-02 Read third time reading-3
  • 2020-03-02 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99--Y 0-N) passage
  • 2020-03-02 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-03-06 Enrolled
  • 2020-03-06 Impact statement from DPB (SB320ER)
  • 2020-03-06 Signed by President
  • 2020-03-06 Signed by Speaker
  • 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
  • 2020-04-11 Governor's recommendation received by Senate
  • 2020-04-22 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (39-Y 1-N)
  • 2020-04-22 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (75-Y 17-N)
  • 2020-04-22 VOTE: Adoption (75-Y 17-N)
  • 2020-04-22 Reconsideration of Governor's recommendation agreed to
  • 2020-04-22 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (58-Y 34-N)
  • 2020-04-22 VOTE: Adoption #2 (58-Y 34-N)
  • 2020-04-22 Governor's recommendation adopted
  • 2020-04-22 Reenrolled
  • 2020-04-22 Reenrolled bill text (SB320ER2)
  • 2020-04-22 Signed by President as reenrolled
  • 2020-04-22 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
  • 2020-04-22 Enacted, Chapter 1254 (effective 7/1/20) became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fcc299f9-a77a-42cf-8748-d2c50167f1e6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).