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type: "Bill"
title: "State Water Control Board; amending certain regulations relating to sewage treatment plants."
description: "State Water Control Board; regulations; issuance of certain permits. Directs the State Water Control Board to amend certain regulations to provide that Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits may also be issued to an existing sewage treatment plant constructed and placed into service prior to January 1, 2001, that serves at least 10 houses but no more than 25 houses if such sewage treatment plant has a documented history of substantial noncompliance and cannot feasibly be connected to a publicly owned sewage treatment plant."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 567"
citation: "Virginia SB 567 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Richard H. Stuart"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb314f73-8b44-434e-9775-3f4b93b14895"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB567"
source_hash: "fe6f8fffcba2241035308e42b344b4ac22133cf551e814d2929959d001a1874a"
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 SB 567 (2022) — State Water Control Board; amending certain regulations relating to sewage treatment plants.
State Water Control Board; regulations; issuance of certain permits. Directs the State Water Control Board to amend certain regulations to provide that Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits may also be issued to an existing sewage treatment plant constructed and placed into service prior to January 1, 2001, that serves at least 10 houses but no more than 25 houses if such sewage treatment plant has a documented history of substantial noncompliance and cannot feasibly be connected to a publicly owned sewage treatment plant.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0144** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0144)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22106269D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB567S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104316D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB567)
4. **SB567ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB567ER)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (10-Y 0-N) — **100** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Richard H. Stuart — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104316D `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-02** Impact statement from DPB (SB567)
- **2022-02-08** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-08** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-08** Committee substitute printed 22106269D-S1 `substitution`
- **2022-02-08** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-11** Impact statement from DPB (SB567S1)
- **2022-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-14** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-14** Reading of substitute waived
- **2022-02-14** Committee substitute agreed to 22106269D-S1
- **2022-02-14** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB567S1
- **2022-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-14** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (10-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-02** Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-07** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-07** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2022-03-07** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2022-03-07** Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-07** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-08** House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-10** Enrolled
- **2022-03-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB567ER)
- **2022-03-10** Signed by President
- **2022-03-10** Signed by Speaker
- **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
- **2022-04-07** Approved by Governor-Chapter 144 (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/cb314f73-8b44-434e-9775-3f4b93b14895`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).