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Chesapeake Bay Pay for Outcomes Fund established; report. Establishes the Chesapeake Bay Pay for Outcomes Fund to provide outcome-based payments for verified reductions in nutrient and sediment pollution from nonpoint sources within the Chesapeake Bay watershed of the Commonwealth. The Department of Environmental Quality is directed to (i) administer the Fund; (ii) establish a competitive solicitation process for awarding payments from the Fund; and (iii) submit an annual report detailing the projects approved for funding, obligations from the Fund, and outcomes to the Chairs of the Senate Committees on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and Finance and Appropriations and the House Committees on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources and Appropriations by October 1 each year.
Introduced
Jan 13, 2026
Last Action
Mar 9, 2026
Session
VA 2026
Sponsors
1 primary · 0 co
Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
Referred to Committee on Appropriations
Read first time
Placed on Calendar
Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB499)
Read second time
Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Substitute rejected
Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute Block Vote (Voice Vote)
Committee substitute printed 26107696D-S2
Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
Rules suspended
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
Committee substitute printed 26107005D-S1
Assigned SACNR sub: Water Usage
Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26105064D
Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
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Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
David W. Marsden