5a13be122b
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
105 lines
5.6 KiB
Markdown
105 lines
5.6 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "Bill"
|
||
title: "Hydraulic fracturing; drilling through any portion of a groundwater management area, prohibition."
|
||
description: "Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Area;hydraulic fracturing prohibited. Prohibits hydraulic fracturing,as defined in the bill, in the Eastern Virginia Groundwater ManagementArea."
|
||
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
|
||
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
|
||
session: "2020"
|
||
identifier: "SB 106"
|
||
citation: "Virginia SB 106 (2020)"
|
||
classification: ["bill"]
|
||
subjects: []
|
||
status: "enacted"
|
||
primary_sponsors: ["Scott A. Surovell"]
|
||
version_count: 5
|
||
action_count: 36
|
||
vote_count: 7
|
||
first_action: "2019-12-08"
|
||
last_action: "2020-04-02"
|
||
source: "openstates"
|
||
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5060d20d-97cf-4aa9-a266-1b7fad433f07"
|
||
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB106"
|
||
source_hash: "10175ed7310b6f4b7a054cc67ae86d1e131949bdc5e4f329f3936516f9a27972"
|
||
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 SB 106 (2020) — Hydraulic fracturing; drilling through any portion of a groundwater management area, prohibition.
|
||
|
||
Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Area;hydraulic fracturing prohibited. Prohibits hydraulic fracturing,as defined in the bill, in the Eastern Virginia Groundwater ManagementArea.
|
||
|
||
## Version chain
|
||
|
||
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
|
||
|
||
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0626)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0626)
|
||
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB106ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB106ER)
|
||
3. **Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB106ES1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB106ES1)
|
||
4. **Impact statement from DPB (SB106)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB106)
|
||
5. **SB106S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB106S1)
|
||
|
||
## Votes
|
||
|
||
- House amendments agreed to by Senate (25-Y 15-N) — **25–15** (pass) · upper
|
||
- VOTE: Passage (61-Y 39-N) — **60–39** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N) — **7–1** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (10-Y 5-N) — **10–5** (pass) · upper
|
||
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendments (16-Y 6-N) — **16–6** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Read third time and passed Senate (26-Y 13-N) — **26–13** (pass) · upper
|
||
|
||
## Sponsors
|
||
|
||
- Scott A. Surovell — primary (person)
|
||
- Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
|
||
|
||
## Timeline
|
||
|
||
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
|
||
|
||
- **2019-12-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101022D `introduction`
|
||
- **2019-12-08** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2020-01-14** Impact statement from DPB (SB106)
|
||
- **2020-01-21** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (10-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
|
||
- **2020-01-21** Committee substitute printed 20106341D-S1 `substitution`
|
||
- **2020-01-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
|
||
- **2020-01-24** Read second time `reading-2`
|
||
- **2020-01-24** Reading of substitute waived
|
||
- **2020-01-24** Committee substitute agreed to 20106341D-S1
|
||
- **2020-01-24** Reading of amendment waived
|
||
- **2020-01-24** Amendment by Senator Surovell agreed to `amendment-passage`
|
||
- **2020-01-24** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB106ES1
|
||
- **2020-01-24** Printed as engrossed 20106341D-ES1
|
||
- **2020-01-27** Read third time and passed Senate (26-Y 13-N) `passage, reading-3`
|
||
- **2020-01-28** Impact statement from DPB (SB106ES1)
|
||
- **2020-02-18** Placed on Calendar
|
||
- **2020-02-18** Read first time `reading-1`
|
||
- **2020-02-18** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2020-02-18** Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2020-02-24** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
|
||
- **2020-02-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N)
|
||
- **2020-02-26** Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendments (16-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
|
||
- **2020-02-28** Read second time `reading-2`
|
||
- **2020-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
|
||
- **2020-03-02** Committee amendments agreed to
|
||
- **2020-03-02** Engrossed by House as amended
|
||
- **2020-03-02** Passed House with amendments (61-Y 39-N) `passage`
|
||
- **2020-03-02** VOTE: Passage (61-Y 39-N)
|
||
- **2020-03-03** House amendments agreed to by Senate (25-Y 15-N)
|
||
- **2020-03-06** Enrolled
|
||
- **2020-03-06** Impact statement from DPB (SB106ER)
|
||
- **2020-03-07** Signed by President
|
||
- **2020-03-07** Signed by Speaker
|
||
- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
|
||
- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
|
||
- **2020-04-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 626 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
|
||
|
||
## Source
|
||
|
||
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5060d20d-97cf-4aa9-a266-1b7fad433f07`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
|
||
|