PFAS monitoring; DEQ to require for industrial wastewater source, publicly owned treatment works.
Introduced
Moved
Reached a final decision
Became law
Derived from the official record below.
Officially: “An Act to amend and reenact § 62.1-44.34:32 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Department of Environmental Quality; industrial wastewater; publicly owned treatment works; PFAS monitoring.” Read the full text
2026 session
What it does
Department of Environmental Quality; industrial wastewater; publicly owned treatment works; PFAS monitoring. Directs every publicly owned treatment works (POTW) to require certain new or industrial users of such POTW to perform and report to such POTW no later than 30 days after receipt from a laboratory the results as received of quarterly discharge monitoring for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) for an initial characterization period of one year, provided, however, that suc
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Where it is
Introduced · Jan 6, 2026
Acts of Assembly Chapter 710 (latest official status)
Latest official status shown, exactly as the official record states it. The step by step history lives on the official page linked below.
The numbers
2
sponsors on the bill
Sponsors
Jeremy S. McPikeRusset Perry
Recorded votes
Passed House (95-Y 0-N 0-A)House of Delegates · 2026-03-05 · P · Y 95, X 4
Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)House of Delegates · 2026-03-02 · P · Y 22
Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources and rereferred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)House of Delegates · 2026-02-25 · P · Y 22
Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N 0-A)Senate · 2026-02-13 · P · Y 39, X 1
Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)Senate · 2026-02-11 · P · Y 40
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)Senate · 2026-02-10 · P · Y 15
Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)Senate · 2026-02-03 · P · Y 14, X 1
Roll-call results shown verbatim from the Virginia legislature’s records. A result reflects that roll call’s own motion, not the bill’s overall outcome.
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