Camping; special use permit. (SB629)

Introduced By

Sen. Bill Stanley (R-Moneta)

Progress

Introduced
Passed Committee
Passed House
Passed Senate
Signed by Governor
Became Law

Description

Special use permit; camping in tent or recreational vehicle. Prohibits any locality from barring or requiring a special use permit for camping by a landowner and his family or nonpaying guests in a tent or recreational vehicle on the landowner's property for a total of no more than two months per year. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Failed

History

DateAction
01/15/2016Presented and ordered printed 16103257D
01/15/2016Referred to Committee on Local Government
01/26/2016Reported from Local Government (12-Y 1-N) (see vote tally)
01/28/2016Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
01/29/2016Read second time and engrossed
02/01/2016Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/03/2016Placed on Calendar
02/03/2016Read first time
02/03/2016Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
02/16/2016Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2
02/17/2016Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
02/26/2016Tabled in Counties, Cities and Towns

Video

This bill was discussed on the floor of the General Assembly. Below is all of the video that we have of that discussion, 1 clip in all, totaling 5 minutes.

Transcript

This is a transcript of the video clips in which this bill is discussed.

FOR CAMPING. THE SENATOR FROM FRANKLIN, SENATOR STANLEY

Sen. Bill Stanley (R-Moneta): THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. I MOVE THAT SENATE BILL 629 PASS AND SPEAKING TO THE BILL

[Unknown]: THE SENATOR HAS THE FLOOR

Sen. Bill Stanley (R-Moneta): MR. PRESIDENT, BELIEVE IT OR NOT THERE ARE TIMES WHEN PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO CAMP WITH THEIR CHILDREN OR THEIR FAMILY AND PEOPLE HAVE THE LAND IN WHICH TO DO IT. I KNEE MY DAUGHTER HAS AN ANNUAL BIG FOOT CAMPOUT WHERE WE CAMPOUT AND HAVE GREAT FOOD AND GREAT TIME AND LOOK FOR BIG FOOT AND USUALLY BIG FOOT NEVER APPEARS EXCEPT FOR ONE YEAR WHEN BIG FOOT DID APPEAR. I HAD MY LEGISLATIVE AIDE DRESS UP IN A GORILLA SUIT AND I HAD GOTTEN HIM TO RUN THROUGH THE CAMP GROUND BUT INSTEAD OF RUNNING THROUGH THE CAMP GROUND HE HIT A LARGE THREE TREE AND KNOCKED HIM SELF-OUT COLD. HE WAS A LITTLE WOOZIE AND STEPPED INTO THE FIRE PIT AND NAILED THE TRUCK ON THE OTHER SIDE. QUITE A SIGHT. IF IF ANYBODY SEES BIG FOOT IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA IT IS PROBABLY MY LEGISLATIVE AIDE. COUNTIES THROUGHOUT THE COMMONWEALTH REQUIRE YOU IF YOU WANT TO HAVE THAT KIND OF EXPERIENCE TO GET A SPECIAL USE PERMIT. THAT SAYS AS PROPERTY OWNER YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO CAMP ON YOUR OWN PROPERTY WITHIN LIMITATIONS AND CERTAINLY WITHIN THE LIMITATIONS OF HEALTH, NOISE, MINIMUM SETBACKS AND PARKING AND THE LIKE. MR. PRESIDENT, FOR ALL THOSE YOUNG DAUGHTERS OF EVERYONE WHO WANT TO HAVE A BIG FOOT CAMP AND NOT HAVE TO GET A SPECIAL USE PERMIT THIS IS FOR THEM AND I ASK THAT THE BILL PASS AND I ROUX HE KNEW MY MOTION

[Unknown]: THE SENATOR FROM FAIRFAX CITY WILL THE GENTLEMAN YIELD FOR A YES YIELD FOR A QUESTION? I WILL YIELD TO MY FRIEND, YES I WOULD ASK THE GENTLEMAN IF MY BROTHER IN LAW COMES DOWN IN AN RV AND PARKS IN MY DRIVE WAY AND I REFUSE TO ALLOW HIM IN MY HOUSE, HOW LONG CAN HE STAY IN MY DRIVEWAY WITH THE RV? THE SENATOR FRA FRANKLIN I WOULD ANSWER BY SAYING, WITH ONE, HE WOULD HAVE TO ALLOW HIS RELATIVES TO BE ON THE PROPERTY IN THE FIRST PLACE. I KNOW HE IS PROBABLY REFERRING TO A MOVIE COUSIN EDDIE IN THE VACATION MOVIES AND ONE WOULD THINK THAT THE POSSIBILITY OF THAT OCCURRING IS PROBABLY REMOTE BUT THERE ARE THINGS IN THE BILL THAT WOULD PRO PREVENT THE FINE SENATORS IN COUSIN DOING WHAT HE IS AFRAID OF HAPPENING I THANK THE GENTLEMAN THANK YOU. THE SENATOR FROM AUGUSTA, SENATOR HANGER.

Sen. Emmett Hanger (R-Mount Solon): THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT. I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE BILL

[Unknown]: THE SENATOR HAS THE FLOOR

Sen. Emmett Hanger (R-Mount Solon): THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE SENATE. EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE A BILL COMES ALONG THAT YOU WEREN'T PAYING ATTENTION TO BUT IT JUMPS OUT AT YOU AND I SAW THIS THE END OF THE WEEK AND I LIKE THIS BILL, MR. PRESIDENT. I HAVE A SON IN LAW WHO LIVES IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA AND I INFORMED HIM OVER THE WEEKEND I WOULD NO LONGER BE PAYING THE HIGH MOTEL RATES IN FAIRFAX AND ARLINGTON AND I WOULD BE STAYING IN HIS BACKYARD. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT,

[Unknown]: THANK YOU, SENATOR THE SENATOR FROM EASTERN FAIRFAX COUNTY, SENATOR SUROVELL

Sen. Scott Surovell (D-Mount Vernon): WOULD THE GENTLEMAN FROM FRANKLIN COUNTY YIELD FOR A QUESTION

Del. Bill Howell (R-Fredericksburg): THE GENTLEMAN FROM FRANKLIN COUNTY YIELD FOR A QUESTION?

Sen. Scott Surovell (D-Mount Vernon): I WILL YIELD

[Unknown]: HE YIELDS I WAS WONDERING IF YOU WERE FAMILIAR WITH THE BFRO.NET. THE BIG FOOT RESEARCHERS THE SENATOR FROM FRANKLIN ORGANIZATION I WOULD ANSWER BY SAY THAT MY 10-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER HAS MADE SURE I AM AWARE OF EVERY SINGLE IT THING ON THE INTERNET THAT HAS TO DO WITH BIG FOOT WILL THE GEORGIA YIELD FOR ANOTHER QUESTION IF IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH BIG FOOT I WILL YIELD HE YIELDS I WAS CURIOUS IF THE GENTLEMAN WAS AWARE SINCE 2003 THERE HAVE BEEN FOUR BIG FOOT SIGHTINGS. A NOVEMBER 3. DECEMBER 2004 A DAY LIGHT ENCOUNTER NEARBIES CREEK NEAR WHERE MY FAMILY IS FROM. AND IN JULY OF 2007 A HUSBAND AND WIFE HEARD A LOUD CREAM FROM INSIDE THEIR HOUSE AND A RUNNER WAS SHADOWED KEEPING PACE IN THE HEAVY FOREST AND IN LIGHT OF THOSE FOUR INCIDENTS WHETHER THAT GAVE THE GENTLEMAN ANY CONCERN ABOUT THE SAFETY OF HIS BILL THE SENATOR FROM FRANKLIN I WOULD ANSWER BY SAYING FIRST AND FOREMOST OF THE FOUR SIGHTINGS I'M ONLY AWARE OF TWO BEING RELATED TO MY LEGISLATIVE AIDE IN A GORILLA SUIT. THE AT VENTURES OF FINDING BIG FOOT OR ADVENTURE OF RUNNING AWAY FROM BIG FOOT OR THE ADVENTURE KNOWING THAT YOUR NEIGHBOR SOUNDS LIKE BIG FOOT WHEN HE SENATORS DOES NOT HARM THIS BILL IN ANY WAY.

Del. Bill Howell (R-Fredericksburg): THE REQUEST HE IS SHOULD SENATE BILL 629 PASS. ALL IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION WILLE , THOSE OPPOSED NO. ARE THE SENATORS READY TO VOTE? HAVE ALL THE SENATORS VOTED? DO ANY SENATORS DESIRE TO CH ANGE THEIR VOTE? THE CLERK WILL CLOSE THE ROLL.

[Unknown]: AYES 40, BIG FOOT 0. [LAUGHTER]