Virginia Senate Bill 191

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-05 - Continued to 2025 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
Pending: Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Electric utilities; data center demand; allocation of costs among customer classes. Directs the State Corporation Commission to ensure that any plan, petition, or proposal from a utility to meet demand associated with data centers considers generation, transmission, and distribution system costs so as to meet such demand at the lowest aggregate reasonable cost. The bill also directs the Commission to initiate a proceeding, on or before December 31, 2024, (i) to determine if the current allocation of costs among customers and the different classifications of customers of electric utilities results in customers that are data centers receiving unreasonable subsidies from other customers or classifications of customers and (ii) if it determines unreasonable subsidies exist, to amend such allocation of costs.

Electric utilities; data center demand, allocation of costs among customer classes.

Sen. Suhas Subramanyam [D]

Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]

Sen. Barbara Favola [D]

Sen. Saddam Salim [D]

2024-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2025 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-01-26 - Senate - Senate: Rereferred from Rules (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-05	Senate	Continued to 2025 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
2024-01-26	Senate	Rereferred to Commerce and Labor
2024-01-26	Senate	Rereferred from Rules (15-Y 0-N)
2024-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on Rules
2024-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104712D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB191
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB191+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/24106262A.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+SB191F171+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S10V0001+SB0191
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S02V0061+SB0191