HB 6645 Summary

• Changes the state plan adoption cycle from five years to four years maximum between adoptions, with revision years occurring no later than four years after the previous adoption.

• Updates timelines for plan review and submission, moving the prerevision draft presentation to September 2022 and subsequent prerevision years, with legislative committee submission by December 2023.

• Updates the current Conservation and Development Policies Plan cycle to 2024-2029 (replacing the 2013-2018 plan) with submission to the legislative committee by December 1, 2023.

• Maintains existing requirements for plan revisions to address transportation, energy, air quality, greenways, natural hazards, coastal flooding and erosion, technology infrastructure, and greenhouse gas reduction goals.

• Establishes that the 2018-2023 Conservation and Development Policies Plan remains effective until the next plan is adopted by the General Assembly.