HB949
Hazardous Substance Facility Response Plans; reporting of substance discharge, etc.
Summary
As Passed Both Chambers. Hazardous Substance Facility Response Plans; civil penalties.
Requires any person that is required to submit a facility response plan under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Water Act Hazardous Substance Worst Case Discharge Planning Regulations to submit evidence of an EPA-approved facility response plan to the Department of Environmental Quality within a certain time period and ... (More) to comply with such plan. The bill provides certain requirements for reporting, recordkeeping, and inspection and authorizes the Department to initiate a civil action to obtain certain equitable relief for violations of the bill's provisions. The bill imposes civil penalties for any person that negligently, willfully, or knowingly (i) discharges or causes to discharge a hazardous substance from a facility or (ii) fails to implement or comply with an EPA-approved facility response plan. Finally, the bill provides a delayed effective date of the next fiscal year immediately following the effective date of the EPA's final rule on Clean Water Act Hazardous Substance Worst Case Discharge Planning and requires the Department to develop guidance to implement the provisions of the bill in the six months preceding such effective date. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/09/2024 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24105005D
- 01/09/2024 - House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 01/23/2024 - House: Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake
- 02/01/2024 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB949)
- 02/05/2024 - House: House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- 02/05/2024 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (9-Y 1-N)
- 02/05/2024 - House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/07/2024 - House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (21-Y 1-N)
- 02/07/2024 - House: Committee substitute printed 24107034D-H1
- 02/07/2024 - House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/08/2024 - House: Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources
- 02/09/2024 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
- 02/09/2024 - House: Reported from Appropriations (11-Y 9-N)
- 02/11/2024 - House: Read first time
- 02/12/2024 - House: Read second time
- 02/12/2024 - House: Committee substitute agreed to 24107034D-H1
- 02/12/2024 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB949H1
- 02/13/2024 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB949H1)
- 02/13/2024 - House: Read third time and passed House (57-Y 41-N)
- 02/13/2024 - House: VOTE: Passage (57-Y 41-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/14/2024 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/14/2024 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/27/2024 - Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/2024 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/29/2024 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (10-Y 4-N)
- 03/04/2024 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/05/2024 - Senate: Read third time
- 03/05/2024 - Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 03/05/2024 - Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 03/05/2024 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 03/05/2024 - Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (24-Y 16-N) Close Floor Vote
- 03/06/2024 - House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (52-Y 46-N)
- 03/06/2024 - House: VOTE: Adoption (52-Y 46-N) Close Floor Vote
- 03/25/2024 - House: Enrolled
- 03/25/2024 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB949ER)
- 03/25/2024 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/26/2024 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/27/2024 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024
- 03/27/2024 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 04/03/2024 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB949ER)
- 04/08/2024 - Governor: Vetoed by Governor
- 04/17/2024 - House: House sustained Governor's veto
