republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/sb-1408.md

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Bill	Waterworks; mandatory reporting of anomalies, negligence.	Department of Health; waterworks; mandatory reporting. Requires owners of waterworks to report any critical equipment failure or malfunction or contaminant release to the Department of Health's Office of Drinking Water as soon as practicable but no more than two hours after discovery. The bill also requires owners of waterworks that are required to submit a monthly operating report to the Office to include any noncritical equipment failure or malfunction that could adversely affect water quality, public health, or service continuity in such report. This bill is identical to HB 2749.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	SB 1408	Virginia SB 1408 (2025)	bill		enacted	Bryce E. Reeves	8	44	8	2025-01-14	2025-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/c96cc70c-bd07-49d8-9911-a73f516c6171	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1408	a532876607f658c09d32ac127a3480715a7152780053c4b6879d463c6a836e46	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1408 (2025) — Waterworks; mandatory reporting of anomalies, negligence.

Department of Health; waterworks; mandatory reporting. Requires owners of waterworks to report any critical equipment failure or malfunction or contaminant release to the Department of Health's Office of Drinking Water as soon as practicable but no more than two hours after discovery. The bill also requires owners of waterworks that are required to submit a monthly operating report to the Office to include any noncritical equipment failure or malfunction that could adversely affect water quality, public health, or service continuity in such report. This bill is identical to HB 2749.

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. Education and Health Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
5. Health and Human Services Substitute (committee substitute) — source
6. Reenrolled (committee substitute) — source
7. SEH Sub: Health Substitute (committee substitute) — source
8. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed House (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bryce E. Reeves — primary (person)
• Phillip A. Scott — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-14 Presented and ordered printed 25104793D introduction
• 2025-01-14 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Assigned Education sub: Health referral-committee
• 2025-01-23 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-23 Committee substitute printed 25105777D-S1 substitution
• 2025-01-24 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-24 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-27 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-01-27 Education and Health Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-27 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-01-27 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1408)
• 2025-01-28 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-05 Placed on Calendar
• 2025-02-05 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2025-02-11 Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-11 Committee substitute printed 25107255D-H1 substitution
• 2025-02-13 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1408)
• 2025-02-13 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-14 Passed by temporarily
• 2025-02-14 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-14 Health and Human Services Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-14 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-14 Passed House with substitute (96-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-18 House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-02-21 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-21 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1408ER) passage
• 2025-02-21 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1408)
• 2025-02-21 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-24 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-05 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 5, 2025 enrolled
• 2025-03-05 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Governor's recommendation received by Senate executive-veto-line-item
• 2025-04-02 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-04-02 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N)
• 2025-04-02 Governor's recommendation adopted executive-signature
• 2025-04-02 Reenrolled enrolled
• 2025-04-02 Reenrolled bill text (SB1408ER2) enrolled
• 2025-04-02 Signed by President as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2025-04-02 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2025-04-02 Enacted, Chapter 631 (Effective 07/01/2025) became-law
• 2025-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c96cc70c-bd07-49d8-9911-a73f516c6171. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).