Bill Text: VA HB1779 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Carbon-free energy or clean energy; fusion energy; definitions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-06 - Committee Referral Pending [HB1779 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2025-HB1779-Introduced.html

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2025 SESSION

INTRODUCED

25103048D

HOUSE BILL NO. 1779

Offered January 8, 2025

Prefiled January 6, 2025

A BILL to amend and reenact § 1-208.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to carbon-free energy or clean energy; fusion energy; definitions.

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Patron—Sullivan

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Committee Referral Pending

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 1-208.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 1-208.1. Carbon-free energy; clean energy.

A. "Carbon-free energy" or "clean energy" includes electric energy generated from a source that does not emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere during the process of generating the electric energy, including electric energy generated by the conversion of sunlight, wind, falling water, wave motion, tides, geothermal, fusion energy, or nuclear energy.

B. As used in this section, "fusion energy" means the energy generated through the process of fusing together atomic nuclei.