HB2050
Occoquan Reservoir PFAS Reduction Program; established.
Status:
Passed
Latest Action:
April 2, 2025
Governor's recommendation adopted
Chief Patron:
David Bulova (D)
Session:
2025 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Drinking water; Occoquan Reservoir PFAS Reduction Program established.
Creates the Occoquan Reservoir PFAS Reduction Program to reduce excessive levels of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in public drinking water derived from the Occoquan Reservoir. The bill requires certain facilities to monitor for PFAS on or before October 1, 2025, using the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Method 1633 or ... (More) an alternative method approved by the EPA and the Department of Environmental Quality. The bill requires any such facility to report all results to the Department no later than the tenth day of the next month after the month in which the result is reported by the laboratory and to include in such report all PFAS analytes measured by the test method. Beginning July 1, 2028, the bill requires PFAS discharged by such facilities that have PFAS in excess of the method detection level to not exceed the level of any maximum containment limits (MCL) for PFAS in drinking water promulgated on or before January 1, 2025. The bill exempts any industrial discharger not listed in the bill, any publicly owned treatment works or drinking water treatment plant, or a municipal solid waste facility but allows any public water system to follow the requirements of the bill for the purpose of planning for compliance with the MCL for PFAS in finished water. The bill clarifies that its provisions will not limit the authority of the Department or the owner or operator of any publicly owned treatment works to which any user discharges wastewater to require monitoring or reporting or otherwise regulate the discharge of any PFAS chemicals or other pollutants under other applicable legal authority. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/07/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25102842D
- 01/07/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 01/14/2025 - House: Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake
- 01/24/2025 - House: Placed on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Agenda
- 01/27/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2050)
- 01/27/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/2025 - House: Placed on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Agenda
- 01/29/2025 - House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/2025 - House: Committee substitute printed 25106088D-H1
- 01/31/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
- 02/03/2025 - House: Read second time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Substitute agreed to
- 02/03/2025 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- 02/04/2025 - House: Read third time and passed House (98-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 with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 4-N)
- 02/11/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/11/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25107197D-S1
- 02/13/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2050)
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-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: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Substitute agreed to
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Senator McPike, Jeremy S. Amendments agreed to
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Engrossed By Senate - Committee Substitute as amended
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute with amendments (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
- 02/20/2025 - House: Senate substitute agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/2025 - House: Enrolled
- 03/07/2025 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2050ER)
- 03/07/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2050)
- 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
- 03/24/2025 - Governor's recommendation received by House
- 03/24/2025 - Governor's Recommendation
- 04/02/2025 - House: House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N)
- 04/02/2025 - Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
- 04/02/2025 - Governor's recommendation adopted
