SB719
Virginia Farm and Forest Prosperity Plan; OSAF to develop and implement comprehensive Plan, report.
Status:
In House
Latest Action:
Feb. 5, 2026
House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
Chief Patron:
Dave Marsden (D)
Session:
2026 Regular Session
Summary
As Introduced. Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry; Virginia Farm and Forest Prosperity Plan; report.
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry, during the first year of each new gubernatorial administration, to develop and implement a written comprehensive Virginia Farm and Forest Prosperity Plan that is designed to be enacted over the course of such gubernatorial administration's term. The Secretary is directed to submit a ... (More) report detailing the progress made toward the development and implementation of the Plan to the Governor and to the Chairs of the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources by December 1 of the first year of each new gubernatorial administration. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/14/2026 - Senate: Presented and ordered printed 26105420D
- 01/14/2026 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 01/26/2026 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB719)
- 01/27/2026 - Senate: Senate committee offered
- 01/27/2026 - Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (13-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/2026 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 01/29/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 01/29/2026 - Senate: Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- 01/30/2026 - Senate: Read second time
- 01/30/2026 - Senate: Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Amendment agreed to
- 01/30/2026 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- 01/30/2026 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/02/2026 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB719)
- 02/02/2026 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 02/05/2026 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/05/2026 - House: Read first time
- 02/05/2026 - House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
