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Carbon market participation; submerged aquatic vegetation.

Department of Environmental Quality; carbon market participation. Authorizes the Department of Environmental Quality to participate in any carbon market for which submerged aquatic vegetation restoration qualifies as an activity that generates carbon offset credits and to enter into agreements necessary to effect such participation, including with private entities for assistance with registration and sale of offset credits. The bill requires any revenue resulting from the sale of such credits to be used to implement additional submerged aquatic vegetation monitoring, restoration, and research or to cover any administrative costs of participation in the credit market. The bill also requires the Department to hold exclusive title to credits until sold.

us/states/va

Virginia General Assembly

2020

SB 783

Virginia SB 783 (2020)

bill

enacted

Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr.

2020-01-08

2020-04-07

openstates

ocd-bill/8b3665e0-07a4-416b-8f9e-b4650e696631

https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB783

253aae417d93e06220dc1450e1b1e6e80b15662b18600b6443a770d42b9bb8fa

2026-07-01

https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump

2026-07-06

reported

legislation

bill

us-va

Virginia SB 783 (2020) — Carbon market participation; submerged aquatic vegetation.

Version chain

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

Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0810) (committee substitute) — source
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB783ER) (committee substitute) — source
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB783S1 (committee substitute) — source
Impact statement from DPB (SB783) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (17-Y 5-N) — 17–5 (pass) · lower
Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N) — 6–1 (pass) · lower
VOTE: Passage (74-Y 25-N) — 73–25 (pass) · lower
Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Timeline

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

2020-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103471D introduction
2020-01-08 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
2020-01-24 Impact statement from DPB (SB783)
2020-02-04 Committee substitute printed 20107667D-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 (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 20107667D-S1
2020-02-11 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB783S1
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 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
2020-02-19 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (17-Y 5-N) committee-passage
2020-02-21 Impact statement from DPB (SB783S1)
2020-02-21 Read second time reading-2
2020-02-24 Passed by for the day
2020-02-25 Read third time reading-3
2020-02-25 Passed House (74-Y 25-N) passage
2020-02-25 VOTE: Passage (74-Y 25-N)
2020-03-02 Enrolled
2020-03-02 Impact statement from DPB (SB783ER)
2020-03-02 Signed by Speaker
2020-03-03 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
2020-04-07 Approved by Governor-Chapter 810 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8b3665e0-07a4-416b-8f9e-b4650e696631. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

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