Virginia House Bill 1647 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Passed on April 22 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-04-22 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1239)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Distributed renewable energy. Promotes the establishment of distributed renewable solar and other renewable energy. The measure (i) requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation a shared solar program that allows multifamily customers of investor-owned utilities, other than American Electric Power, to purchase electric power through a subscription in a shared solar facility; (ii) raises the cap on the total amount of renewable energy that can be net metered in a utility's service territory from one percent to six percent, five percent of which is available to all customers and one percent of which is available only to low-income utility customers; (iii) raises the cap for net-metered nonresidential generation facilities from one megawatt to three megawatts; (iv) allows certain localities to install solar or wind facilities of up to five megawatts on government-owned property and use the electricity for government-owned buildings; (v) increases the cap on the capacity of generation from facilities from the customer's expected annual energy consumption to 150 percent of such amount for customers in Dominion Energy Virginia's service territory; (vi) prohibits standby charges for any residential customer-generator or agricultural customer-generator of an investor-owned utility other than Dominion Energy Virginia; and (vii) increases the cap on third party power purchase agreements to 500 megawatts for jurisdictional customers and 500 megawatts for nonjurisdictional customers of Dominion Energy Virginia and to 40 megawatts for customers of American Electric Power. The measure also amends the Commonwealth Energy Policy to include provisions supporting distributed generation of renewable energy.

Distributed solar & other renewable energy; sales of electricity under third-party agreements.

Del. Jerrauld Jones [D]

Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy [D]

2020-04-22 - House - House: VOTE: (52-Y 39-N) (Y: 52 N: 39 NV: 9 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-04-22 - Senate - Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (25-Y 15-N) (Y: 25 N: 15 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-04-22 - Senate - Senate: Amendments specific and severable (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-02 - House - House: VOTE: Adoption (55-Y 43-N 1-A) (Y: 55 N: 43 NV: 1 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2020-02-27 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (24-Y 16-N) (Y: 24 N: 16 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-26 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-24 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (13-Y 2-N) (Y: 13 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-11 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (55-Y 45-N) (Y: 55 N: 45 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-06 - House - House: Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (13-Y 9-N) (Y: 13 N: 9 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-04 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 4-N) (Y: 6 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-04-22		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1239)
2020-04-22	House	Enacted, Chapter 1239 (effective 7/1/20)
2020-04-22	Senate	Signed by President as reenrolled
2020-04-22	House	Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
2020-04-22	House	Reenrolled bill text (HB1647ER2)
2020-04-22	House	Reenrolled
2020-04-22		Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
2020-04-22	Senate	Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (25-Y 15-N)
2020-04-22	Senate	Amendments specific and severable (40-Y 0-N)
2020-04-22	House	VOTE: (52-Y 39-N)
2020-04-22	House	House concurred in Governor's recommendation (52-Y 39-N)
2020-04-22	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-04-11	House	Governor's substitute printed 20110083D-H2
2020-04-11	House	Governor's recommendation received by House
2020-03-12		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
2020-03-12	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
2020-03-06	Senate	Signed by President
2020-03-06	House	Signed by Speaker
2020-03-05	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1647ER)
2020-03-05	House	Enrolled
2020-03-02	House	VOTE: Adoption (55-Y 43-N 1-A)
2020-03-02	House	Senate substitute agreed to by House 20109065D-S1 (55-Y 43-N 1-A)
2020-03-02	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-02-27	Senate	Passed Senate with substitute (24-Y 16-N)
2020-02-27	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1647S1
2020-02-27	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 20109065D-S1
2020-02-27	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2020-02-27	Senate	Read third time
2020-02-26	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2020-02-24	Senate	Committee substitute printed 20109065D-S1
2020-02-24	Senate	Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (13-Y 2-N)
2020-02-12	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2020-02-12	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2020-02-11	House	VOTE: Passage (55-Y 45-N)
2020-02-11	House	Read third time and passed House (55-Y 45-N)
2020-02-10	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1647H1
2020-02-10	House	Committee substitute agreed to 20107899D-H1
2020-02-10	House	Read second time
2020-02-09	House	Read first time
2020-02-06	House	Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (13-Y 9-N)
2020-02-06	House	Committee substitute printed 20107899D-H1
2020-02-04	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 4-N)
2020-01-21	House	Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3
2020-01-16	House	Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
2020-01-16	House	Presented and ordered printed 20104629D

HB572 (Same As) 2020-04-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1188)
HB1184 (Same As) 2020-04-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1189)
SB710 (Same As) 2020-04-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1187)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	2109.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1647
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1647+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1647H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1647S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1647ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1647H2+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1647ER2+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP1239+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H1403V0040+HB1647
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H14V0212+HB1647
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV0799+HB1647
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S02V0209+HB1647
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1050HB1647+HB1647
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1196HB1647+HB1647
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV1656+HB1647
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV2039HB1647+HB1647
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV2040HB1647+HB1647
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV2184+HB1647