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type: "Bill"
title: "Local health districts and health departments; guidance for septic and well permits."
description: "Department of Health; local health districts and local health departments; guidance for onsite sewage system and private well permits. Directs the Department of Health to develop guidance directing local health districts and local health departments to evaluate and recommend solutions to problems with a valid onsite sewage system or private well permit prior to issuing a revocation for such valid onsite sewage system or private well permit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2309"
citation: "Virginia HB 2309 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Keith Hodges"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 31
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0e391b9-944a-474e-98c5-49b1c66b0556"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2309"
source_hash: "371ec6809bad3250b41a33686e9f75d72f953ba87403e40cfa0550569041ed69"
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 2309 (2025) — Local health districts and health departments; guidance for septic and well permits.
Department of Health; local health districts and local health departments; guidance for onsite sewage system and private well permits. Directs the Department of Health to develop guidance directing local health districts and local health departments to evaluate and recommend solutions to problems with a valid onsite sewage system or private well permit prior to issuing a revocation for such valid onsite sewage system or private well permit.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1015829.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1072334.PDF)
3. **HHS Sub: Health Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1034101.PDF)
4. **Health and Human Services Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1034909.PDF)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1061502.PDF)
## Votes
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (20-Y 1-N) — **201** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- M. Keith Hodges — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102737D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-08** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-20** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2309)
- **2025-01-20** Assigned sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2025-01-30** Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (20-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30** Committee substitute printed 25106430D-H1 `substitution`
- **2025-01-31** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2309)
- **2025-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03** Health and Human Services Substitute agreed to
- **2025-02-03** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-04** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-17** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)
- **2025-02-17** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-18** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2309ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2309)
- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 260 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0260)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e0e391b9-944a-474e-98c5-49b1c66b0556`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).