Virginia House Bill 1770 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 13 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-03-13 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0281)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Natural gas utility ratemaking; eligible safety activity costs. Permits natural gas utilities to recover certain safety activity costs incurred on or after January 1, 2013, in future rates by accounting for them as deferred costs. The amount deferred shall not exceed four percent of the natural gas utility's net plant investment that was utilized in establishing or confirming the utility's base rates. The utility shall be deemed to have recovered eligible safety activity costs to the extent that the return on equity earned by the utility in an earnings test filing for a year, after consideration of the treatment of regulatory assets, is in excess of the mid-point of the rate of return on equity range specified or confirmed in the natural gas utility's most recent rate case or performance-based regulation plan. If a utility's base rates include eligible safety activity costs, the utility shall only be permitted to defer the level of eligible safety activity costs that are in excess of the level reflected in base rates.

Natural gas utilities; eligible safety activity costs to be recovered as deferred costs.

Del. Jackson Miller [R]

2013-02-14 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-02-13 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-02-04 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 102 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-01-29 - House - House: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 23 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-03-13		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0281)
2013-03-13		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 281 (effective 7/1/13)
2013-02-20	Senate	Signed by President
2013-02-20	House	Signed by Speaker
2013-02-20	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1770ER)
2013-02-20	House	Enrolled
2013-02-14	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2013-02-14	Senate	Read third time
2013-02-13	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2013-02-11	Senate	Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
2013-02-05	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2013-02-05	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2013-02-04	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
2013-02-04	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
2013-02-01	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1770H1
2013-02-01	House	Committee substitute agreed to 13104542D-H1
2013-02-01	House	Read second time
2013-01-31	House	Read first time
2013-01-29	House	Committee substitute printed 13104542D-H1
2013-01-29	House	Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
2013-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2013-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13103231D

SB1287 (Same As) 2013-03-14 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0406)

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+sum+HB1770
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+HB1770+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+HB1770H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+HB1770ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+CHAP0281+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+H14V0074+HB1770
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+HV0466+HB1770
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+S02V0113+HB1770
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+SV0491HB1770+HB1770
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+SV0530HB1770+HB1770