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type: "Bill"
title: "Forestry, Department of; conveyance of easement in Buckingham County."
description: "Authorizes the conveyance of a right-of-way easement from the Department of Forestry to Robert H. Whistleman and Karen L. Whistleman. The easement, which will follow an existing road across a portion of the Appomattox-Buckingham State Forest, will allow ingress and egress and access for utilities from State Route 24 to the Whistlemans' property."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1783"
citation: "Virginia HB 1783 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Property and Conveyances"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Matthew Fariss"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-12-27"
last_action: "2019-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d998544-fb32-409c-be87-4ef3b3b843f6"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1783"
source_hash: "fefe841df3bb87268a894ee47fd06bd2b5e1afd90d10ae5d14702fbd812f0b69"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 1783 (2019) — Forestry, Department of; conveyance of easement in Buckingham County.
Authorizes the conveyance of a right-of-way easement from the Department of Forestry to Robert H. Whistleman and Karen L. Whistleman. The easement, which will follow an existing road across a portion of the Appomattox-Buckingham State Forest, will allow ingress and egress and access for utilities from State Route 24 to the Whistlemans' property.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0073)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0073)
2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB1783)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1783ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1783ER)
4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19105033D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1783H1)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101588D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1783)
## Votes
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute — **220** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **70** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **130** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- C. Matthew Fariss — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-12-27** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101588D `introduction`
- **2018-12-27** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-09** Assigned ACNR sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-28** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-28** Committee substitute agreed to 19105033D-H1
- **2019-01-28** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1783H1
- **2019-01-29** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-30** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-13** Enrolled
- **2019-02-13** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
- **2019-02-15** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 15, 2019
- **2019-02-15** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2019
- **2019-02-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 73 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8d998544-fb32-409c-be87-4ef3b3b843f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).