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| Bill | Onsite sewage system pump-out oversight; certain localities. | Department of Health; onsite sewage system pump-out oversight; certain localities. Requires the Department of Health (the Department), effective July 1, 2023, to manage and enforce onsite sewage system pump-out compliance for Accomack, Essex, Gloucester, King and Queen, King William, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northampton, Northumberland, Richmond, and Westmoreland Counties and the incorporated towns within those counties. The bill requires licensed operators conducting onsite sewage system pump-outs that are managed by the Department in these localities to provide a report on the results of the site visit using a web-based reporting system developed by the Department. The bill also requires the Board of Health to establish a uniform schedule of civil penalties for violations of onsite treatment system pump-out requirements in localities in which compliance with such requirements is managed and enforced by the Department and provides that any person who violates such requirements in a locality in which compliance is managed and enforced by the Department is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2022 | HB 769 | Virginia HB 769 (2022) |
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Virginia HB 769 (2022) — Onsite sewage system pump-out oversight; certain localities.
Department of Health; onsite sewage system pump-out oversight; certain localities. Requires the Department of Health (the Department), effective July 1, 2023, to manage and enforce onsite sewage system pump-out compliance for Accomack, Essex, Gloucester, King and Queen, King William, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northampton, Northumberland, Richmond, and Westmoreland Counties and the incorporated towns within those counties. The bill requires licensed operators conducting onsite sewage system pump-outs that are managed by the Department in these localities to provide a report on the results of the site visit using a web-based reporting system developed by the Department. The bill also requires the Board of Health to establish a uniform schedule of civil penalties for violations of onsite treatment system pump-out requirements in localities in which compliance with such requirements is managed and enforced by the Department and provides that any person who violates such requirements in a locality in which compliance is managed and enforced by the Department is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0486 (committee substitute) — source
- Committee substitute printed 22105994D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
- HB769ER (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103696D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- M. Keith Hodges — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103696D
introduction - 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
referral-committee - 2022-01-21 Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2
referral-committee - 2022-02-02 Impact statement from DPB (HB769)
- 2022-02-03 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-03 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 2022-02-03 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-02-08 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-02-08 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-08 Committee substitute printed 22105994D-H1
substitution - 2022-02-08 Referred to Committee on Appropriations
referral-committee - 2022-02-08 Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources
referral-committee - 2022-02-08 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-09 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-10 Impact statement from DPB (HB769H1)
- 2022-02-11 Read first time
reading-1 - 2022-02-14 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-02-14 Committee substitute agreed to 22105994D-H1
- 2022-02-14 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB769H1
- 2022-02-15 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2022-02-15 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-16 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2022-02-16 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2022-02-21 Assigned Education sub: Health
referral-committee - 2022-02-22 Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-02-24 Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-24 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
referral-committee - 2022-03-01 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-03-02 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-03 Read third time
reading-3 - 2022-03-03 Reading of amendment waived
- 2022-03-03 Committee amendment agreed to
- 2022-03-03 Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 2022-03-03 Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N)
passage - 2022-03-07 Senate amendment agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-07 VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-10 Enrolled
- 2022-03-10 Impact statement from DPB (HB769ER)
- 2022-03-10 Signed by Speaker
- 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 486 (effective 7/1/22)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c6aeb80d-69d4-4228-bf0f-8acf693a1f7d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).