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type: "Bill"
title: "Comprehensive water supply; planning process."
description: "Comprehensive water supply planning process. Directs the State Water Control Board to consider existing interjurisdictional arrangements in designating comprehensive water supply regional planning areas and to provide a mechanism for a locality to request, subject to approval by the Department of Environmental Quality, a change of its designated regional planning area to an adjoining planning area."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1297"
citation: "Virginia HB 1297 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael J. Webert"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-01-20"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/584a2ae4-9fe7-443c-ad70-699ff513ce77"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB1297"
source_hash: "c1e5f159382da8914ba95c3f927dc7d55ffd5eb1ee103f4076fe6f200b56ac48"
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 HB 1297 (2022) — Comprehensive water supply; planning process.
Comprehensive water supply planning process. Directs the State Water Control Board to consider existing interjurisdictional arrangements in designating comprehensive water supply regional planning areas and to provide a mechanism for a locality to request, subject to approval by the Department of Environmental Quality, a change of its designated regional planning area to an adjoining planning area.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0331** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0331)
2. **HB1297ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1297ER)
3. **Presented and ordered printed 22104108D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1297)
4. **Printed as engrossed 22104108D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1297E)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (10-Y 0-N) — **100** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Michael J. Webert — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-20** Presented and ordered printed 22104108D `introduction`
- **2022-01-20** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-28** Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-31** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-01-31** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (10-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-01** Impact statement from DPB (HB1297)
- **2022-02-02** Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-07** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2022-02-07** Engrossed by House as amended HB1297E
- **2022-02-07** Printed as engrossed 22104108D-E
- **2022-02-08** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-08** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-08** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2022-02-08** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-08** VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-08** Impact statement from DPB (HB1297E)
- **2022-02-09** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-09** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-09** Enrolled
- **2022-03-09** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-10** Impact statement from DPB (HB1297ER)
- **2022-03-10** Signed by President
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 331 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/584a2ae4-9fe7-443c-ad70-699ff513ce77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).