CHAPTER NUMBER: 758 
File Code: Natural Resources - Generally
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 388  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
The Speaker (Administration) and Delegates Fry, Rosapepe, Frush,
Hammen, Turner, Preis, Harkins, Kopp, and Pitkin
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
"Smart Growth" and Neighborhood Conservation - Rural Legacy
Program
 
Creating a Rural Legacy Program to enhance natural resources,
agricultural, forestry, and environmental protection by providing
funds to purchase specified interests in real property; establishing a
Rural Legacy Board to administer the Program and an advisory committee
to make recommendations to the Board; specifying criteria the Board
will apply in administering the Program; providing for the funding of
the Program; specifying the amount of Program Open Space funds that
may be used for capital purposes; requiring a specified report; etc.
House Action
- 1/27
 - First Reading Appropriations
 - 2/12
 - Hearing 2/27 at 11:00 a.m.
 - 3/24
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations
 - 3/23
 - Favorable with Amendments
 -      Committee Amendment (#1-9) Adopted
 -      Committee Amendment (#10) Adopted
 -      Committee Amendment (#11-15) Adopted
 -      Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Special Order 3/26 (Delegate Schisler) Adopted
 - 3/24
 - Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/25
 - Third Reading Passed (130-8)
 - 3/31
 - House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
 -      House Requests Senate Recede
 -      Conference Committee Appointed ...
 -      Delegates Edwards, Fry, Pitkin
 - 4/3
 - Conference Committee Report Adopted
 -      Third Reading Passed (131-8)
 - 4/6
 - Passed Enrolled
 - 5/22
 - Signed by the Governor Chapter 758
 
Senate Action
- 3/28
 - First Reading Senate Rules
 - 4/1
 - Re-referred Budget and Taxation
 - 4/4
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation
 -      Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 -      Motion 2rdgs same day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Amoss) Adopted
 -      Third Reading Passed with Amendments (40-3)
 - 4/5
 - Senate Refuses to Recede
 -      Conference Committee Appointed ...
 -      Senators Amoss, Middleton, Lawlah
 - 4/6
 - Conference Committee Report Adopted
 -      Third Reading Passed (44-0)
 
- Sponsored by:
 - Speaker of the House of Delegates
 - Administration
 - Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
 - Delegate Donald C. Fry, District 35A
 - Delegate Peter A. Hammen, District 46
 - Delegate James M. Harkins, District 35A
 - Delegate Nancy K. Kopp, District 16
 - Delegate Joan B. Pitkin, District 23
 - Delegate Mary Louise Preis, District 34
 - Delegate James C. Rosapepe, District 21
 - Delegate Frank S. Turner, District 13A
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - AGRICULTURE -see also- FARMLAND
 - APPROPRIATIONS
 - BUDGETS
 - COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
 - CONSERVATION -see also- RECYCLING; SOIL CONSERVATION
 - COUNTIES -see also- CHARTERED COUNTIES; CODE COUNTIES
 - EASEMENTS
 - ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS -see also- POLLUTION
 - FARMLAND
 - GOVERNOR
 - NATURAL RESOURCES -see also- FORESTS AND PARKS
 - NATURAL RESOURCES, DEPARTMENT OF
 - PROGRAM OPEN SPACE
 - PUBLIC WORKS, BOARD OF
 - REAL PROPERTY
 - REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
 - TRANSFER TAX -see also- RECORDATION
 - TREES
 - ZONING AND PLANNING
 
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
 -   Natural Resources
 - (
 5-903 ,
 5-9A-01 ,
 5-9A-02 ,
 5-9A-03 ,
 5-9A-04 ,
 5-9A-05 ,
 5-9A-06 ,
 5-9A-07 ,
 5-9A-08 ,
 5-9A-09 
)
 -   Tax - Property
 - (
 13-209 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF) 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments: 
- House 
 - Number: 634735/3 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 25, 1997     at: 10:28
 Status: Incomplete      
 - Senate
 - Number: 049305/1 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 4, 1997      at: 12:00
 Status: Adopted         
 
Conference Committee Documents:
- Report Number: 722690/1 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 7, 1997      at: 15:25
 Status: Adopted         
 - Amendment Number: 652793/1 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 7, 1997      at: 15:25
 Status: Incomplete