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Bill	Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Program authority; right of entry.	Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Program authority; right of entry. Removes the restriction on localities that operate regulated municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4) to only enter on those properties from which a discharge enters their MS4 and allows such localities to, at reasonable times and under reasonable circumstances, enter any establishment or upon any property, public or private, for the purpose of obtaining information or conducting surveys or investigations necessary in the enforcement of the Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Program. However, the bill restricts operators of an MS4 that are not a locality, or any duly authorized agent thereof, to only enter on those properties from which a discharge enters their MS4. This bill is identical to SB 1093.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2008	Virginia HB 2008 (2025)	bill		enacted	Marty Martinez	4	30	7	2025-01-07	2025-05-02	openstates	ocd-bill/143bb473-c38d-43c6-b296-0751adab7872	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2008	c015aeaf247d59447a9ec9f394343587fadb239dbf0d505c6b67f46ca7700d68	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2008 (2025) — Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Program authority; right of entry.

Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Program authority; right of entry. Removes the restriction on localities that operate regulated municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4) to only enter on those properties from which a discharge enters their MS4 and allows such localities to, at reasonable times and under reasonable circumstances, enter any establishment or upon any property, public or private, for the purpose of obtaining information or conducting surveys or investigations necessary in the enforcement of the Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Program. However, the bill restricts operators of an MS4 that are not a locality, or any duly authorized agent thereof, to only enter on those properties from which a discharge enters their MS4. This bill is identical to SB 1093.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (21-Y 15-N) — 21–15 (pass) · upper
• House rejected Governor's recommendation (14-Y 80-N) — 14–80 (fail) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 1-N) — 9–1 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 6-N) — 8–6 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House 95-Y 4-N 0-A) — 95–4 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 1-N) — 21–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Marty Martinez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25104290D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-07 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2025-01-14 Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake referral-committee
• 2025-01-26 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2008)
• 2025-01-27 Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 1-N)
• 2025-01-29 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House 95-Y 4-N 0-A) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2025-02-11 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 6-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-13 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-13 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-13 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-14 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-14 Passed Senate (21-Y 15-N) passage
• 2025-02-19 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-19 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2008ER) passage
• 2025-02-19 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2008)
• 2025-02-19 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-22 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Governor's recommendation received by House executive-veto-line-item
• 2025-04-02 House rejected Governor's recommendation (14-Y 80-N) veto-override-passage
• 2025-04-02 Communicated to Governor
• 2025-04-02 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 2, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-05-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 723 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-05-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0723)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/143bb473-c38d-43c6-b296-0751adab7872. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).