republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2026/sb-138.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "PFAS monitoring; DEQ to require for industrial wastewater source, publicly owned treatment works."
description: "Department of Environmental Quality; industrial wastewater; publicly owned treatment works; PFAS monitoring. Directs every publicly owned treatment works (POTW) to require certain new or industrial users of such POTW to perform and report to such POTW no later than 30 days after receipt from a laboratory the results as received of quarterly discharge monitoring for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) for an initial characterization period of one year, provided, however, that such POTW may discontinue remaining quarterly monitoring by an industrial user with proper monitoring results that are below the method detection level for the first two quarters. If an industrial user detects PFAS in any amount above the detection method limit in its initial year of quarterly monitoring, the bill requires such industrial user to continue to perform and report to the POTW no later than 30 days after receipt from the laboratory the results as received of quarterly discharge monitoring for PFAS. The bill requires a POTW that receives PFAS monitoring results to report such results to the Department of Environmental Quality on a quarterly basis. Finally, the bill directs any POTW to notify an owner or operator of an industrial user subject to the monitoring requirements of the bill of the requirement to submit the initial quarterly monitoring results for PFAS within 30 days of the effective date of the bill. This bill is identical to HB 938."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 138"
citation: "Virginia SB 138 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeremy S. McPike"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2026-01-06"
last_action: "2026-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/899a6c79-f4b7-4ded-b6b0-80e581eec43f"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB138"
source_hash: "8e6097aa46fec573c28d90c76be8c951caf5b2ad54de555f358db86feab8b96a"
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 138 (2026) — PFAS monitoring; DEQ to require for industrial wastewater source, publicly owned treatment works.

Department of Environmental Quality; industrial wastewater; publicly owned treatment works; PFAS monitoring. Directs every publicly owned treatment works (POTW) to require certain new or industrial users of such POTW to perform and report to such POTW no later than 30 days after receipt from a laboratory the results as received of quarterly discharge monitoring for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) for an initial characterization period of one year, provided, however, that such POTW may discontinue remaining quarterly monitoring by an industrial user with proper monitoring results that are below the method detection level for the first two quarters. If an industrial user detects PFAS in any amount above the detection method limit in its initial year of quarterly monitoring, the bill requires such industrial user to continue to perform and report to the POTW no later than 30 days after receipt from the laboratory the results as received of quarterly discharge monitoring for PFAS. The bill requires a POTW that receives PFAS monitoring results to report such results to the Department of Environmental Quality on a quarterly basis. Finally, the bill directs any POTW to notify an owner or operator of an industrial user subject to the monitoring requirements of the bill of the requirement to submit the initial quarterly monitoring results for PFAS within 30 days of the effective date of the bill. This bill is identical to HB 938.

## 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/1082981.PDF)
2. **Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1116001.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1201058.PDF)

## Votes

- H VOTE: — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage R — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed R — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitute — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — **22–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jeremy S. McPike — primary (person)
- Russet Perry — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2026-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102266D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-06** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-27** Assigned HACNR sub: Water Usage `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-03** Senate committee offered
- **2026-02-03** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-04** Committee substitute printed 26107042D-S1 `substitution`
- **2026-02-10** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB138)
- **2026-02-10** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-11** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-02-11** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- **2026-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-12** Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Substitute agreed to
- **2026-02-12** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute Block Vote (Voice Vote) `substitution`
- **2026-02-13** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-18** Placed on Calendar
- **2026-02-18** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-18** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-25** Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources and referred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-26** Assigned HAPP sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-02** Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-05** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-05** Passed House (95-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-11** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB138ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB138)
- **2026-03-11** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Signed by Speaker `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`
- **2026-04-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 710 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/899a6c79-f4b7-4ded-b6b0-80e581eec43f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).