Virginia House Bill 1273 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-13 - Left in Commerce and Labor
Pending: House Commerce and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Virginia Alternative Energy and Coastal Protection Act. Directs the State Air Pollution Control Board to adopt regulations establishing a carbon dioxide cap and trade program to reduce emissions released by electric generation facilities. The regulations are required to comply with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative model rule. The measure authorizes the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality to establish, implement, and manage an auction program to sell allowances into a market-based trading program. The measure requires revenues from the sale of carbon allowances, to the extent permitted by Article X, Section 7 of the Constitution of Virginia, to be deposited in an interest-bearing account and to be distributed without further appropriation (i) to the Virginia Shoreline Resiliency Fund, (ii) to the VirginiaSAVES program, (iii) for certain programs in Southwest Virginia, and (iv) for administrative expenses.

Va. Alternative Energy & Coastal Protection Act; regulations to establish carbon dioxide cap, etc.

Del. David Bulova [D]

Del. Gordon Helsel [R]

Del. Betsy Carr [D]

2018-01-30 - House - House: Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (4-Y 6-N) (Y: 4 N: 6 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-13	House	Left in Commerce and Labor
2018-01-30	House	Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (4-Y 6-N)
2018-01-23	House	Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #3
2018-01-10	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2018-01-10	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103834D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1273
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1273+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H1403V0020+HB1273