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type: "Bill"
title: "Habitat Policy Oversight Committee; established, membership, powers and duties, report."
description: "Marine Resources Commission; Habitat Policy Oversight Committee established; powers and duties. Establishes the Habitat Policy Oversight Committee within the Marine Resources Commission to advise the Commission and the Habitat Management Division of the Commission on policies within their jurisdiction and to support the Commission's coastal resilience efforts. The bill establishes the powers and duties of the Committee, establishes how the members of the Committee are appointed, and provides that the Committee shall have 11 voting members and two ex-officio members. This bill incorporates HB 619."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 390"
citation: "Virginia HB 390 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alex Q. Askew"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 37
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2026-01-12"
last_action: "2026-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10526e50-e330-4cc4-82c5-982928366858"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB390"
source_hash: "f4dddad66b1f41092c84a93058596e3e41f312254e579bb460f0e203e61fc20a"
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 390 (2026) — Habitat Policy Oversight Committee; established, membership, powers and duties, report.
Marine Resources Commission; Habitat Policy Oversight Committee established; powers and duties. Establishes the Habitat Policy Oversight Committee within the Marine Resources Commission to advise the Commission and the Habitat Management Division of the Commission on policies within their jurisdiction and to support the Commission's coastal resilience efforts. The bill establishes the powers and duties of the Committee, establishes how the members of the Committee are appointed, and provides that the Committee shall have 11 voting members and two ex-officio members. This bill incorporates HB 619.
## 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/1084251.PDF)
2. **Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1119373.PDF)
3. **Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1185581.PDF)
4. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1216463.PDF)
5. **Chesapeake Subcommittee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1108230.PDF)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1197902.PDF)
## Votes
- Passage R — **370** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute — **220** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **400** (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — **980** (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — **980** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitute — **140** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **100** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Alex Q. Askew — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26105033D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-12** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-19** Assigned HACNR sub: Chesapeake `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-26** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB390)
- **2026-02-02** House subcommittee offered
- **2026-02-02** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2026-02-04** Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-04** Committee substitute printed 26106934D-H1 `substitution`
- **2026-02-06** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-09** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-09** committee substitute agreed to `substitution`
- **2026-02-09** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2026-02-10** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2026-02-11** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-12** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB390)
- **2026-02-24** Senate committee offered
- **2026-02-24** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitute (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-26** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-26** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-02-26** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- **2026-02-27** Committee substitute printed 26108483D-S1 `substitution`
- **2026-02-27** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-27** Committee substitute agreed to (Voice Vote) `substitution`
- **2026-02-27** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2026-02-27** Passed Senate with substitute Block Vote (37-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-02** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB390)
- **2026-03-03** Senate substitute agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N 0-A) `substitution`
- **2026-03-10** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB390)
- **2026-03-10** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-10** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB390ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-14** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 131 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-06** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0131)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/10526e50-e330-4cc4-82c5-982928366858`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).