Virginia House Bill 2792 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: Passed on March 21 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-03-21 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0746)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Electric utilities; municipal net energy metering. Directs the State Corporation Commission to establish a pilot program that affords the opportunity for any locality to participate in net energy metering if it is a retail customer of a certain type of investor-owned electric utility. In order to qualify for the program, the locality is required to own and operate a renewable generating facility with a generating capacity of not more than two megawatts that is located on the municipality's premises and is intended primarily to offset all or part of the locality's own electricity requirements. Under the pilot program, a municipal customer-generator that generates electricity in amounts that exceed the amount of electricity consumed by the municipal customer-generator, determined annually, to credit one or more of the municipality's target metered accounts in order that the generation energy charges on the electric bills of the target's metered accounts are reduced by the amount of excess generation kilowatt hours apportioned to the metered account multiplied by the applicable generation energy rate of the target's accounts. In Appalachian Power's service territory, metered accounts of the public school division of a locality may be target accounts. The amount of generating capacity of all generating facilities that are the subject of a pilot program are limited to (i) five megawatts if Appalachian Power is the pilot program utility, though the utility may increase the amount to up to 10 megawatts or (ii) 25 megawatts if Dominion Power is the pilot program utility. Such aggregated capacities of the generation facilities that are the subject of a pilot program constitute a portion of the existing limit of the utility's adjusted Virginia peak-load forecast of the previous year that is available to municipal customer-generators, eligible customer-generators, eligible agricultural customer-generators, and small agricultural generators in the utility's service area. The duration of the pilot program is six years. This bill is identical to SB 1779.

Electric utilities; municipal net energy metering.

Del. Kathy Tran [D]	Del. Elizabeth Guzman [D]	Del. Chris Hurst [D]	Del. Kaye Kory [D]
Del. Alfonso Lopez [D]	Del. Richard Sullivan [D]	Del. David Toscano [D]	Del. Vivian Watts [D]

2019-02-14 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) (Y: 39 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-13 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-05 - House - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (78-Y 21-N) (Y: 78 N: 21 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-31 - House - House: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (19-Y 2-N) (Y: 19 N: 2 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-24 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N) (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-21		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0746)
2019-03-21		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 746 (effective 7/1/19)
2019-02-21		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
2019-02-21	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
2019-02-20	Senate	Signed by President
2019-02-19	House	Signed by Speaker
2019-02-19	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2792ER)
2019-02-19	House	Enrolled
2019-02-14	Senate	Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N)
2019-02-14	Senate	Read third time
2019-02-13	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2019-02-11	Senate	Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 0-N)
2019-02-06	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2019-02-06	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2019-02-05	House	VOTE: PASSAGE (78-Y 21-N)
2019-02-05	House	Read third time and passed House (78-Y 21-N)
2019-02-04	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2792H1
2019-02-04	House	Committee substitute agreed to 19106229D-H1
2019-02-04	House	Read second time
2019-02-03	House	Read first time
2019-01-31	House	Committee substitute printed 19106229D-H1
2019-01-31	House	Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (19-Y 2-N)
2019-01-24	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N)
2019-01-22	House	Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #3
2019-01-18	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2019-01-18	House	Presented and ordered printed 19104713D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2792
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2792+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2792H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2792ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0746+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H1403V0017+HB2792
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H14V0072+HB2792
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV2496+HB2792
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S02V0134+HB2792
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0547HB2792+HB2792
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0653HB2792+HB2792