republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-616.md

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Bill	Farmland Preservation, Office of; transfers Office to Dept. of Forestry.	Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Department of Forestry; Office of Farmland Preservation transferred. Transfers from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to the Department of Forestry the Office of Farmland Preservation and its powers and duties and reporting requirements, the Virginia Farm Link Program, the Century Farm Program, and the Virginia Farmland and Forestland Preservation Fund. The bill renames the Office as the Office of Working Lands Preservation. The bill makes technical amendments to effectuate the transfer and requires the Department of Environmental Quality to report to the Department of Forestry by July 1 of each year certain enumerated information about nonpoint source nutrient credits certified in the previous year that involve land use conversion. This bill is identical to HB 892.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 616	Virginia SB 616 (2024)	bill		enacted	Todd E. Pillion	4	35	6	2024-01-10	2024-03-08	openstates	ocd-bill/57f2f7eb-8dcd-421e-a609-6e53c863f327	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB616	3f0d45d61683bd3854582125fd76a497705dbfeb57de6c07cf6f78e3d25a87fd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 616 (2024) — Farmland Preservation, Office of; transfers Office to Dept. of Forestry.

Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Department of Forestry; Office of Farmland Preservation transferred. Transfers from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to the Department of Forestry the Office of Farmland Preservation and its powers and duties and reporting requirements, the Virginia Farm Link Program, the Century Farm Program, and the Virginia Farmland and Forestland Preservation Fund. The bill renames the Office as the Office of Working Lands Preservation. The bill makes technical amendments to effectuate the transfer and requires the Department of Environmental Quality to report to the Department of Forestry by July 1 of each year certain enumerated information about nonpoint source nutrient credits certified in the previous year that involve land use conversion. This bill is identical to HB 892.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0010 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104857D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 24104857D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB616ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104857D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-10 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-23 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-23 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-30 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-31 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-31 Impact statement from DPB (SB616)
• 2024-02-01 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-02 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-02 Reading of amendments waived
• 2024-02-02 Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-02 Reading of amendments waived
• 2024-02-02 Finance and Appropriations Committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-02 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB616E
• 2024-02-02 Printed as engrossed 24104857D-E
• 2024-02-05 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-09 Impact statement from DPB (SB616E)
• 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-02-14 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-16 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-19 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-19 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-21 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-21 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB616ER) passage
• 2024-02-21 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-02-22 Impact statement from DPB (SB616ER)
• 2024-02-24 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-01 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024 enrolled
• 2024-03-01 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 10 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0010)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/57f2f7eb-8dcd-421e-a609-6e53c863f327. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).