Virginia House Bill 20 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on November 19 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-02-04 - Incorporated by Labor and Commerce
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Virginia Alternative Energy and Coastal Protection Act. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to implement the final carbon trading regulation as approved by the State Air Pollution Control Board in order to establish a carbon dioxide cap and trade program that limits and reduces the total carbon dioxide emissions released by electric generation facilities and that complies with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative model rule. The measure authorizes the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality to establish, implement, and manage an auction program to sell allowances into a market-based trading program. The measure requires revenues from the sale of carbon allowances, to the extent permitted by Article X, Section 7 of the Constitution of Virginia, to be deposited in an interest-bearing account and to be distributed without further appropriation (i) to assist counties, cities, towns, residents, and businesses affected by recurrent flooding, sea-level rise, and flooding from severe weather events; (ii) to support energy efficiency programs; (iii) to support renewable energy programs; (iv) to provide economic development, education, and workforce training programs for families and businesses in Southwest Virginia for the purpose of revitalizing communities negatively affected by the decline of fossil fuel production; (v) to the Virginia Natural Resources Commitment Fund to fund the Virginia Agricultural Best Management Practices Cost-Share Program; and (vi) for administrative expenses. The measure states that development of new utility-owned and utility-operated generating facilities utilizing energy derived from sunlight, or from onshore or offshore wind, to achieve the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions is in the public interest and directs Dominion Energy Virginia and Appalachian Power to achieve a minimum of 50 percent of the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions through the development of such utility-owned and utility-operated generating facilities utilizing energy derived from sunlight, or from onshore or offshore wind. The measure provides that any retail customer that purchases electric energy from a supplier other than the incumbent electric utility serving the exclusive service territory in which such retail customer is located shall pay a non-bypassable surcharge. The measure also requires the Department to establish an allowance set-aside for any electric generation facility subject to a cap and trade program that operates according to a long-term contract as of January 1, 2020, that prohibits the recovery of allowance costs.

Va. Alternative Energy & Coastal Protection Act; DEQ to implement final carbon trading regulation.

Del. Joesph Lindsey [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-04	House	Incorporated by Labor and Commerce
2020-01-30	House	Subcommittee recommends incorporating (HB981-Herring) by voice vote
2020-01-28	House	Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3
2020-01-22	House	Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
2020-01-22	House	Referred from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
2020-01-14	House	Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake
2019-11-19	House	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2019-11-19	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100461D

HB981 (Similar To) 2020-04-22 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1219)

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB20
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB20+hil