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Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services; noxious weeds; commercial viability; report. Amends the definition of noxious weed to remove the exclusion for living plants or parts thereof that are commercially viable or commercially propagated in Virginia and removes the requirement that the Noxious Weeds Advisory Committee include in its recommendations to the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services an analysis of the current and potential in-state commercial viability of a plant species. The bill requires a plant that is designated by the Board as a noxious weed and commercially propagated in Virginia to be subject to a phase-out period of two years for grasses, forbs, and vines; four years for shrubs; and seven years for trees. The bill directs the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to conduct a review of the legislative and regulatory authority of the Board pertaining to the control of noxious weeds and report his findings and recommendations to the Chairs of the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources by November 1, 2026.
Introduced
Jan 2, 2026
Last Action
Mar 10, 2026
Session
VA 2026
Sponsors
1 primary · 0 co
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026
Signed by Speaker
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB109)
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB109ER)
Signed by President
Enrolled
Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N 0-A)
Read third time
Rules suspended
Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N)
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
Read third time and passed House (96-Y 2-N 0-A)
Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
Engrossed by House - committee substitute
committee substitute agreed to
Read second time
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB109)
Read first time
Committee substitute printed 26106452D-H1
Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N)
House subcommittee offered
Assigned HACNR sub: Agriculture
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB109)
Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100221D
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Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
Holly M. Seibold