SB719
Virginia Farm and Forest Prosperity Plan; OSAF to develop and implement comprehensive Plan, report.
Status:
Passed
Latest Action:
March 10, 2026
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
Chief Patron:
Dave Marsden (D)
Session:
2026 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. 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
- 02/24/2026 - House: Placed on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Agenda
- 02/25/2026 - House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/2026 - House: Read second time
- 03/02/2026 - House: Read third time
- 03/02/2026 - House: Passed House (98-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 03/02/2026 - House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 03/02/2026 - House: Passed House (99-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 03/05/2026 - Senate: Enrolled
- 03/05/2026 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB719ER)
- 03/05/2026 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB719)
- 03/05/2026 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/05/2026 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/10/2026 - Senate: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026
- 03/10/2026 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
