State Government / Virginia / Legislation / HB 487
State-owned bottomlands; Marine Resources Commission; conveyance of certain easements to City of Norfolk; Coastal Storm Risk Management Program. Allows the Marine Resources Commission to convey to the City of Norfolk, in locations acceptable to the Commission, permanent easement interests, temporary construction easements, and fee simple interests in subaqueous land that are necessary for the City’s Phase I drawings, defined in the bill, pursuant to quitclaims. The bill also allows the Commission to quitclaim to the City any interest that the Commonwealth may have in and to the property known as Newton Canal, a/k/a Mahone's Canal, a/k/a Brambleton Canal, which property is located within the boundaries of City of Norfolk GPIN 1437339770.
Latest development · Jul 21, 2026
Continued from last session
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Continued from last session
Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB487)
Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N 0-A)
Engrossed by House - committee substitute
committee substitute agreed to
Read second time
Read first time
Committee substitute printed 26107593D-H1
Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (9-Y 1-N)
House subcommittee offered
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB487)
Assigned HACNR sub: Chesapeake
Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102635D
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