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type: "Bill"
title: "Tax-exempt pollution control facilities; adds Va. Dept. of Health as a certifying authority."
description: "Adds to the duties of the Virginia Department of Health the duty of serving as a state certifying authority in determining conformity with state requirements for certain tax-exempt water pollution control projects. Under current law, the State Water Control Board is the only state certifying authority for water pollution projects. The bill contains an emergency clause."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2811"
citation: "Virginia HB 2811 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency Legislation", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael J. Webert"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72d11986-9051-438e-b060-4ccc8b48d11f"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2811"
source_hash: "e198e86255aca3f6de4578ed5dd2cd53d68bb7f6818ed7c2e45dc61bddf63de1"
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 2811 (2019) — Tax-exempt pollution control facilities; adds Va. Dept. of Health as a certifying authority.
Adds to the duties of the Virginia Department of Health the duty of serving as a state certifying authority in determining conformity with state requirements for certain tax-exempt water pollution control projects. Under current law, the State Water Control Board is the only state certifying authority for water pollution projects. The bill contains an emergency clause.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0441)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0441)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2811ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2811ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 19106140D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2811H1)
4. **House: Presented and ordered printed 19105240D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2811)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance with substitute — **190** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance — **160** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Michael J. Webert — primary (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-23** Unanimous consent to introduce
- **2019-01-23** Presented and ordered printed 19105240D `introduction`
- **2019-01-23** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-04** Committee substitute agreed to 19106140D-H1
- **2019-02-04** Emergency clause added
- **2019-02-04** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2811H1
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19** Enrolled
- **2019-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
- **2019-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 441 (effective 3/18/19) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/72d11986-9051-438e-b060-4ccc8b48d11f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).