republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-879.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Land's End Wildlife Mgmt. Area; DWR to grant & convey an ingress-egress easement & right-of-way.	Conveyance of easement. Authorizes the Department of Wildlife Resources to grant and convey an easement and right-of-way at Land's End Wildlife Management Area to Joseph C. Frank III, Betty J. Frank, Jacob C. Ackerman, and Crystal F. Ackerman. The easement will allow ingress and egress from State Route 625 (Salem Church Road) to the grantees' properties.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 879	Virginia HB 879 (2024)	bill		enacted	Hillary Pugh Kent	3	25	6	2024-01-09	2024-03-14	openstates	ocd-bill/40a9bd4d-f36a-470b-ba23-9a8e203a70de	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB879	aab5280ee65516af7913dd494c52f85b79073bd23a648d933db45b32b827a3a8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 879 (2024) — Land's End Wildlife Mgmt. Area; DWR to grant & convey an ingress-egress easement & right-of-way.

Conveyance of easement. Authorizes the Department of Wildlife Resources to grant and convey an easement and right-of-way at Land's End Wildlife Management Area to Joseph C. Frank III, Betty J. Frank, Jacob C. Ackerman, and Crystal F. Ackerman. The easement will allow ingress and egress from State Route 625 (Salem Church Road) to the grantees' properties.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0073 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB879ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100731D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hillary Pugh Kent — primary (person)
• Richard H. Stuart — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100731D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-29 Impact statement from DPB (HB879)
• 2024-01-31 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-05 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-06 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-06 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-07 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-19 Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-20 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-21 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-27 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-27 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB879ER) passage
• 2024-02-27 Impact statement from DPB (HB879ER)
• 2024-02-27 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-01 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
• 2024-03-14 Approved by Governor-Chapter 73 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-14 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0073)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/40a9bd4d-f36a-470b-ba23-9a8e203a70de. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).