VirginiaHB20502025 Regular SessionHouse

Occoquan Reservoir PFAS Reduction Program; established.

Sponsored By: David L. Bulova (Democratic)

To Governor

Summary

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 an alternative method approved by the EPA. The bill requires any such facility to report all results to the Department of Environmental Quality 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. The bill requires by July 1, 2027, for any facility that measures exceedances in its discharge of the maximum contaminant level (MCL) for PFAS in drinking water promulgated on or before January 1, 2025, the Department, for an individual Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit if the facility discharges directly to surface waters, or a major publicly owned treatment works, for an indirect discharger, to modify the applicable discharge permit to require that the facility's discharge not exceed that MCL. The bill requires the modified permit to provide a compliance schedule that requires compliance with such level as soon as possible but no later than July 1, 2029. The bill exempts from its provisions 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 provides that any public water system may 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.

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Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • David L. Bulova

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 463 • No: 5

House vote • 4/2/2025

House concurred in Governor's recommendation Block Vote

Yes: 96 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/2/2025

Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation

Yes: 40 • No: 0

House vote • 2/20/2025

Senate substitute agreed to by House

Yes: 95 • No: 0

Senate vote • 2/20/2025

Passed Senate with substitute with amendments

Yes: 38 • No: 0

Senate vote • 2/19/2025

Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading)

Yes: 40 • No: 0

Senate vote • 2/17/2025

Reported from Finance and Appropriations

Yes: 13 • No: 1

Senate vote • 2/11/2025

Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations

Yes: 11 • No: 4

House vote • 2/4/2025

Read third time and passed House

Yes: 98 • No: 0

House vote • 1/29/2025

Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute

Yes: 22 • No: 0

House vote • 1/27/2025

Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute

Yes: 10 • No: 0 • Other: 1

Actions Timeline

  1. Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)

    4/2/2025Senate
  2. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0650)

    4/2/2025Governor
  3. Reenrolled bill text (HB2050ER2)

    4/2/2025House
  4. Reenrolled

    4/2/2025House
  5. Enacted, Chapter 650 (Effective 07/01/25)

    4/2/2025House
  6. Signed by President as reenrolled

    4/2/2025Senate
  7. Signed by Speaker as reenrolled

    4/2/2025House
  8. Governor's recommendation adopted

    4/2/2025Governor
  9. House concurred in Governor's recommendation Block Vote (96-Y 0-N)

    4/2/2025House
  10. Governor's recommendation received by House

    3/24/2025Governor
  11. Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025

    3/11/2025Governor
  12. Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025

    3/11/2025House
  13. Signed by President

    3/10/2025Senate
  14. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2050)

    3/7/2025House
  15. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2050ER)

    3/7/2025House
  16. Enrolled

    3/7/2025House
  17. Signed by Speaker

    3/7/2025House
  18. Passed Senate with substitute with amendments (38-Y 0-N)

    2/20/2025Senate
  19. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute

    2/20/2025Senate
  20. Senator McPike, Jeremy S. Amendments agreed to

    2/20/2025Senate
  21. Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Substitute agreed to

    2/20/2025Senate
  22. Read third time

    2/20/2025Senate
  23. Senate substitute agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)

    2/20/2025House
  24. Engrossed By Senate - Committee Substitute as amended

    2/20/2025Senate
  25. Reading of amendment waived

    2/20/2025Senate

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