Virginia House Bill 2018 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-08 - Left in Commerce and Labor
Pending: House Commerce and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Virginia Alternative Energy and Coastal Protection Act. Requires the Governor to seek to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative or other carbon trading program with an open auction of carbon allowances. The Department of Environmental Quality is directed to establish a carbon dioxide cap and trade program to reduce emissions released by electric generation stations. The revenues from the sale of carbon allowances are to be deposited in the Virginia Shoreline Resiliency Fund, a revolving fund established in 2016 for the purposes of mitigating future flood damage and creating a low-interest loan program to help residents and businesses that are subject to recurrent flooding.

Virginia Alternative Energy and Coastal Protection Act; established, report.

Del. Ron Villanueva [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-08	House	Left in Commerce and Labor
2017-01-31	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2017-01-17	House	Assigned C & L sub: Special Subcommittee on Energy
2017-01-10	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2017-01-10	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102526D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2018
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2018+hil