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Bill	Mineral mining and processing; use of cyanide or a cyanide compound prohibited.	Mineral mining and processing; use of cyanideor a cyanide compound prohibited. Prohibits any miner or otherperson from using cyanide or a cyanide compound in any mineral miningor processing operation.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 85	Virginia HB 85 (2024)	bill		enacted	Shelly A. Simonds	3	25	6	2023-12-28	2024-03-26	openstates	ocd-bill/6339ef0a-0e31-4ac6-bd90-2f1c75ed7ede	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB85	a981e6c377365448d51d263faa9768af1522b1f8e0b6131c581bd853b94cadd1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 85 (2024) — Mineral mining and processing; use of cyanide or a cyanide compound prohibited.

Mineral mining and processing; use of cyanideor a cyanide compound prohibited. Prohibits any miner or otherperson from using cyanide or a cyanide compound in any mineral miningor processing operation.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. CHAP0135 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB85ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101899D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Shelly A. Simonds — primary (person)
• Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Amy J. Laufer — cosponsor (person)
• David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
• Debra D. Gardner — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• W. Chad Green — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-28 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101899D filing, introduction
• 2023-12-28 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-01-15 Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-24 Impact statement from DPB (HB85)
• 2024-01-24 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-26 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-01-29 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-30 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-30 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-01-31 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-22 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-23 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-23 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-28 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-28 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB85ER) passage
• 2024-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB85ER)
• 2024-02-28 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-02 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-26 Approved by Governor-Chapter 135 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-26 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0135)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6339ef0a-0e31-4ac6-bd90-2f1c75ed7ede. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).