Virginia Senate Bill 849 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 23 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-23 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0413)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Lawn fertilizer contractor-applicators. Authorizes the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to enter into an agreement with a locality to provide oversight and data collection assistance related to the requirements of certified lawn fertilizer contractor-applicators. Current law prohibits localities from regulating the registration, packaging, labeling, sale, use, application, storage, or distribution of fertilizers except by ordinance pursuant to certain requirements. The bill also reduces from 100 to 50 the total number of acres of nonagricultural land to which a contractor-applicator may apply lawn fertilizer and lawn maintenance fertilizer annually without submitting an annual report to the Commissioner. The bill increases from $250 to $1,000 the civil penalty imposed on a contractor-applicator for a violation of applicable regulations.

Lawn fertilizer; contractor-applicators.

Sen. Monty Mason [D]

2020-02-24 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (63-Y 36-N) (Y: 63 N: 36 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-19 - House - House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (17-Y 5-N) (Y: 17 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-17 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) (Y: 7 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-24 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-22 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-21 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-14 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-23		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0413)
2020-03-23		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 413 (effective 7/1/20)
2020-03-10		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
2020-03-10	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 10, 2020
2020-02-27	House	Signed by Speaker
2020-02-27	Senate	Signed by President
2020-02-27	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB849ER)
2020-02-27	Senate	Enrolled
2020-02-24	House	VOTE: Passage (63-Y 36-N)
2020-02-24	House	Passed House (63-Y 36-N)
2020-02-24	House	Read third time
2020-02-21	House	Read second time
2020-02-19	House	Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (17-Y 5-N)
2020-02-17	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
2020-02-13	House	Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake
2020-02-13	House	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2020-02-13	House	Read first time
2020-02-13	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-01-24	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2020-01-23	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2020-01-22	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2020-01-21	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
2020-01-14	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2020-01-14	Senate	Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N)
2020-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
2020-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102703D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
3	2	3602	(n/a)	See Bill Text
3	2	3602.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB849
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB849+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB849ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0413+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S01V0008+SB0849
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S05V0021+SB0849
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0119SB0849+SB0849
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0140SB0849+SB0849
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H0102V0037+SB0849
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H01V0238+SB0849
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV1260+SB0849