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| Bill | Forest Sustainability Fund; created. | Land use valuation for real estate devoted to forest use; creation of Forest Sustainability Fund. Creates the Forest Sustainability Fund, to be administered by the State Forester. Localities that have adopted a use value assessment and taxation program for real estate devoted to forest use are eligible to apply for an allocation from the Fund. Awards are proportionally based upon the amount of revenue forgone in the previous fiscal year by localities due to the use value program. This bill is identical to HB 180. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2022 | SB 184 | Virginia SB 184 (2022) |
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Virginia SB 184 (2022) — Forest Sustainability Fund; created.
Land use valuation for real estate devoted to forest use; creation of Forest Sustainability Fund. Creates the Forest Sustainability Fund, to be administered by the State Forester. Localities that have adopted a use value assessment and taxation program for real estate devoted to forest use are eligible to apply for an allocation from the Fund. Awards are proportionally based upon the amount of revenue forgone in the previous fiscal year by localities due to the use value program. This bill is identical to HB 180.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0379 (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101775D (committee substitute) — source
- SB184ER (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (84-Y 12-N 2-A) — 84–11 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance (17-Y 3-N) — 17–3 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Frank M. Ruff, Jr. — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101775D
introduction - 2022-01-10 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
referral-committee - 2022-01-25 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-01-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 2022-01-27 Impact statement from DPB (SB184)
- 2022-01-27 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2022-01-28 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2022-02-22 Placed on Calendar
- 2022-02-22 Read first time
reading-1 - 2022-02-22 Referred to Committee on Finance
referral-committee - 2022-02-23 Reported from Finance (17-Y 3-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-25 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-02-28 Read third time
reading-3 - 2022-02-28 Passed House (84-Y 12-N 2-A)
passage - 2022-02-28 VOTE: Passage (84-Y 12-N 2-A)
- 2022-03-02 Enrolled
- 2022-03-02 Signed by Speaker
- 2022-03-03 Signed by President
- 2022-03-07 Impact statement from DPB (SB184ER)
- 2022-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
- 2022-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 379 (effective 7/1/22)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f9538b7a-63e0-4e6e-9d18-5d79788d2151. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).