HB2516
Hazardous substances; Hazardous Substance Facility Response Plans, civil penalties.
Status:
Enacted
Latest Action:
March 21, 2025
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0279)
Chief Patron:
Alfonso Lopez (D)
Session:
2025 Regular Session
Summary
As Introduced. Hazardous substances; 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 Facility Response Plans to submit evidence of an EPA-approved facility response plan to the Department of Environmental Quality within a certain time period and to comply ... (More) 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 requires the Department to develop guidance to implement the provisions of the bill. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/08/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102643D
- 01/08/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 01/24/2025 - House: Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake
- 01/24/2025 - House: Placed on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Agenda
- 01/27/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2516)
- 01/28/2025 - House: Placed on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Agenda
- 01/29/2025 - House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/04/2025 - House: Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/2025 - House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 02/04/2025 - House: Passed House (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/11/2025 - Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/19/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/2025 - House: Enrolled
- 03/07/2025 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2516ER)
- 03/07/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2516)
- 03/07/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/10/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/2025 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025
- 03/11/2025 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- 03/21/2025 - Approved by Governor-Chapter 279 (Effective 07/01/25)
- 03/21/2025 - Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0279)
