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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Loans and grants for agricultural best management practices; riparian buffers."
description: "Loans and grants for agricultural best management practices; riparian buffers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2637"
citation: "Virginia HB 2637 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Waters of the State", "Ports and Harbors"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael J. Webert"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-01-10"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0af8758e-6a8c-419a-b660-d7b1a57fa252"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2637"
source_hash: "89a848d8050d342fa6c028148fb0423c5ef140d9eba3cbb1afa6daf04890fce9"
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 2637 (2019) — Loans and grants for agricultural best management practices; riparian buffers.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0552)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0552)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2637ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2637ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 19102217D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2637)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **970** (pass) · lower
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — **140** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **90** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — **220** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Michael J. Webert — primary (person)
- Tony O. Wilt — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-10** Presented and ordered printed 19102217D `introduction`
- **2019-01-10** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Assigned ACNR sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-02-04** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2019-02-04** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2019-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-05** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-22** Enrolled
- **2019-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-22** Signed by President
- **2019-03-04** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
- **2019-03-04** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 552 (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/0af8758e-6a8c-419a-b660-d7b1a57fa252`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).