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Bill Hazardous substances; Hazardous Substance Facility Response Plans, civil penalties. Hazardous substances; hazardous substance facility response plans; civil penalties. Requires any person that is required to submit a facility response plan under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Water Act Hazardous Substance Facility Response Plans to submit evidence of an EPA-approved facility response plan to the Department of Environmental Quality within a certain time period and to comply with such plan. The bill provides certain requirements for reporting, recordkeeping, and inspection and authorizes the Department to initiate a civil action to obtain certain equitable relief for violations of the bill's provisions. The bill imposes civil penalties for any person that negligently, willfully, or knowingly (i) discharges or causes to discharge a hazardous substance from a facility or (ii) fails to implement or comply with an EPA-approved facility response plan. Finally, the bill requires the Department to develop guidance to implement the provisions of the bill. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2025 HB 2516 Virginia HB 2516 (2025)
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Virginia HB 2516 (2025) — Hazardous substances; Hazardous Substance Facility Response Plans, civil penalties.

Hazardous substances; hazardous substance facility response plans; civil penalties. Requires any person that is required to submit a facility response plan under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Water Act Hazardous Substance Facility Response Plans to submit evidence of an EPA-approved facility response plan to the Department of Environmental Quality within a certain time period and to comply with such plan. The bill provides certain requirements for reporting, recordkeeping, and inspection and authorizes the Department to initiate a civil action to obtain certain equitable relief for violations of the bill's provisions. The bill imposes civil penalties for any person that negligently, willfully, or knowingly (i) discharges or causes to discharge a hazardous substance from a facility or (ii) fails to implement or comply with an EPA-approved facility response plan. Finally, the bill requires the Department to develop guidance to implement the provisions of the bill.

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. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Reconsideration of Passed Senate with substitute block vote agreed to (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
  • Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
  • Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) — 9–0 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Alfonso H. Lopez — primary (person)
  • Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102643D filing, introduction
  • 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
  • 2025-01-24 Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake referral-committee
  • 2025-01-27 Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-01-28 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2516)
  • 2025-01-29 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-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 (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2025-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
  • 2025-02-04 Passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage
  • 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 and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-02-17 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-02-19 Rules suspended
  • 2025-02-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-02-19 Passed by for the day
  • 2025-02-20 Read third time reading-3
  • 2025-02-20 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2025-02-20 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-02-20 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2516ER) passage
  • 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2516)
  • 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
  • 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
  • 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
  • 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
  • 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 279 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
  • 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0279)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c4fee6c9-8d2b-4753-b5e5-c6da61c8f20f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

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