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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Conservation easements; certain easements be liberally construed in favor of purpose which created.	Conservation easements; construction. Provides that an easement held pursuant to the Virginia Conservation Easement Act or the Open-Space Land Act or by the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation shall be liberally construed in favor of achieving the conservation purposes for which it was created.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2021	HB 1760	Virginia HB 1760 (2021)	bill		enacted	Michael J. Webert	4	29	7	2020-12-17	2021-03-24	openstates	ocd-bill/1461a872-1f98-4bda-929f-45f51dd942bb	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1760	28732b595c0d063d38c9a570922b3ad7d5567b6cf114dac6f69008a63374256b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1760 (2021) — Conservation easements; certain easements be liberally construed in favor of purpose which created.

Conservation easements; construction. Provides that an easement held pursuant to the Virginia Conservation Easement Act or the Open-Space Land Act or by the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation shall be liberally construed in favor of achieving the conservation purposes for which it was created.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0317 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 21102392D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB1760ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101159D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 2-N) — 11–2 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (30-Y 8-N) — 30–8 (pass) · upper
• Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Michael J. Webert — primary (person)
• Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-17 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101159D introduction
• 2020-12-17 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2021-01-12 Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2021-01-20 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-01-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
• 2021-01-20 Impact statement from DPB (HB1760)
• 2021-01-20 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-01-20 Committee substitute printed 21102392D-H1 substitution
• 2021-01-21 Read first time reading-1
• 2021-01-22 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-01-22 Committee substitute agreed to 21102392D-H1
• 2021-01-22 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1760H1
• 2021-01-25 Impact statement from DPB (HB1760H1)
• 2021-01-25 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2021-01-25 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2021-01-26 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2021-01-26 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-16 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-18 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2021-02-19 Passed Senate (30-Y 8-N) passage
• 2021-02-24 Enrolled
• 2021-02-24 Impact statement from DPB (HB1760ER)
• 2021-02-24 Signed by President
• 2021-02-25 Signed by Speaker
• 2021-02-26 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2021
• 2021-02-26 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
• 2021-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 317 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1461a872-1f98-4bda-929f-45f51dd942bb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).