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SB719Introduced in the Senate

Virginia Farm and Forest Prosperity Plan; OSAF to develop and implement comprehensive Plan, report.

Passed

Introduced by Dave Marsden, District 35

What does this bill do?

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Official description

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 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. This bill is identical to HB 512.

Where it stands

Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0831)

April 13, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

House of Delegates votes

3 recorded votes · each counted separately

Senate votes

3 recorded votes · each counted separately

House of DelegatesStage: Passed House (99-Y 0-N 0-A) · March 2, 2026

99

Yes

0

No

0

Absent or Not Voting

99 delegates recorded in this House of Delegates vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

See how each delegate voted

DelegateDistrictVote
Patrick Hope1Yes
Adele McClure2Yes
Alfonso Lopez3Yes
Charniele Herring4Yes
Kirk McPike5Yes
Richard Sullivan6Yes
Karen Keys-Gamarra7Yes
Irene Shin8Yes
Karrie Delaney9Yes
Dan Helmer10Yes

Bill history

  1. Presented and ordered printed 26105420D

  2. Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources

  3. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB719)

  4. Senate committee offered

  5. Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (13-Y 0-N)

  6. Rules suspended

  7. Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)

  8. Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)

  9. Read second time

  10. Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Amendment agreed to

  11. Engrossed by Senate Block Vote (Voice Vote)

  12. Engrossed by Senate as amended

  13. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB719)

  14. Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A)

  15. Placed on Calendar

  16. Read first time

  17. Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources

  18. Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N)

  19. Read second time

  20. Read third time

  21. Passed House (98-Y 0-N 0-A)

  22. Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House

  23. Passed House (99-Y 0-N 0-A)

  24. Enrolled

  25. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB719ER)

  26. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB719)

  27. Signed by Speaker

  28. Signed by President

  29. Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026

  30. Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026

  31. Approved by Governor-Chapter 831 (effective 7/1/2026)

  32. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0831)

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