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Bill	Conservation easements; construction.	Conservation easements; construction. Providesthat an easement held pursuant to the Virginia Conservation EasementAct or the Open-Space Land Act be liberally construed in favor ofachieving the conservation purposes for which it was created.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2021	SB 1199	Virginia SB 1199 (2021)	bill		enacted	J. Chapman Petersen	5	32	7	2021-01-11	2021-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/88398fba-1c8a-4330-8423-55be93cc94da	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1199	d639b98d0aa6d0787755ff2ba742d4f5846fb00486020cebd76de92a3a44fa97	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1199 (2021) — Conservation easements; construction.

Conservation easements; construction. Providesthat an easement held pursuant to the Virginia Conservation EasementAct or the Open-Space Land Act be liberally construed in favor ofachieving 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. CHAP0274 (committee substitute) — source
2. Floor substitute printed 21103368D-S1 (Stuart) (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100906D (committee substitute) — source
4. Printed as engrossed 21100906D-E (committee substitute) — source
5. SB1199ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed Senate (25-Y 14-N) — 25–14 (pass) · upper
• Committee amendments agreed to (23-Y 16-N) — 23–16 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (10-Y 5-N) — 10–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• J. Chapman Petersen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100906D introduction
• 2021-01-11 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2021-01-19 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (10-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2021-01-20 Impact statement from DPB (SB1199)
• 2021-01-21 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2021-01-22 Floor substitute printed 21103368D-S1 (Stuart)
• 2021-01-22 Passed by for the day
• 2021-01-25 Impact statement from DPB (SB1199S1)
• 2021-01-25 Passed by for the day
• 2021-01-26 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-01-26 Reading of amendments waived
• 2021-01-26 Committee amendments agreed to (23-Y 16-N)
• 2021-01-26 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1199E
• 2021-01-26 Printed as engrossed 21100906D-E
• 2021-01-27 Read third time and passed Senate (25-Y 14-N) passage, reading-3
• 2021-01-29 Impact statement from DPB (SB1199E)
• 2021-02-02 Placed on Calendar
• 2021-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2021-02-02 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2021-02-08 Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
• 2021-02-10 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-12 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-02-15 Read third time reading-3
• 2021-02-15 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2021-02-15 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-17 Enrolled
• 2021-02-17 Signed by President
• 2021-02-18 Impact statement from DPB (SB1199ER)
• 2021-02-18 Signed by Speaker
• 2021-02-22 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 22, 2021
• 2021-02-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
• 2021-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 274 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/88398fba-1c8a-4330-8423-55be93cc94da. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).