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Virginia bills · 2026 Regular Session

Virginia HB 938

Publicly owned treatment works; monitoring of PFAS.

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. To Governor
  6. Became law

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Cosponsors (11)

Summary

Official abstract published by the Virginia legislature· SUMMARY AS PASSED

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 such POTW may discontinue remaining quarterly monitoring by an industrial user with proper monitoring results that are below the method detection level for the first two quarters. If an industrial user detects PFAS in any amount above the detection method limit in its initial year of quarterly monitoring, the bill requires such industrial user to continue to perform and report to the POTW no later than 30 days after receipt from the laboratory the results as received of quarterly discharge monitoring for PFAS. The bill requires a POTW that receives PFAS monitoring results to report such results to the Department of Environmental Quality on a quarterly basis. Finally, the bill directs any POTW to notify an owner or operator of an industrial user subject to the monitoring requirements of the bill of the requirement to submit the initial quarterly monitoring results for PFAS within 30 days of the effective date of the bill. This bill is identical to SB 138.

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Roll-call votes

State vote data last updated Oct 15, 2026, 8:04 PM.

DateVoteResultYour legislators
Mar 9, 2026
Senate		Passage RpassSet your home in Virginia to see
Mar 5, 2026
Senate		Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)passSet your home in Virginia to see
Mar 4, 2026
Senate		Reported from Finance and AppropriationspassSet your home in Virginia to see
Feb 24, 2026
Senate		Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural ResourcespassSet your home in Virginia to see
Feb 17, 2026
House		H VOTE:passSet your home in Virginia to see
Feb 13, 2026
House		Reported from AppropriationspassSet your home in Virginia to see
Feb 13, 2026
House		Subcommittee recommends reportingpassSet your home in Virginia to see
Feb 11, 2026
House		Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitutepassSet your home in Virginia to see
Feb 9, 2026
House		Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitutepassSet your home in Virginia to see

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