Virginia Senate Bill 710 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: Passed on April 11 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-04-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1187)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Distributed renewable energy. Promotes the establishment of distributed renewable solar and other renewable energy. The measure (i) requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation a shared solar program that allows multifamily customers of investor-owned utilities, other than American Electric Power, to purchase electric power through a subscription in a shared solar facility; (ii) raises the cap on the total amount of renewable energy that can be net metered in a utility's service territory from one percent to six percent, five percent of which is available to all customers and one percent of which is available only to low-income utility customers; (iii) raises the cap for net-metered nonresidential generation facilities from one megawatt to three megawatts; (iv) allows certain localities to install solar or wind facilities of up to five megawatts on government-owned property and use the electricity for government-owned buildings; (v) increases the cap on the capacity of generation from facilities from the customer's expected annual energy consumption to 150 percent of such amount for customers in Dominion Energy Virginia's service territory; (vi) prohibits standby charges for any residential customer-generator or agricultural customer-generator of an investor-owned utility other than Dominion Energy Virginia; and (vii) increases the cap on third party power purchase agreements to 500 megawatts for jurisdictional customers and 500 megawatts for nonjurisdictional customers of Dominion Energy Virginia and to 40 megawatts for customers of American Electric Power. The measure also amends the Commonwealth Energy Policy to include provisions supporting distributed generation of renewable energy.

Distributed solar & other renewable energy; sales of electricity under third-party agreements.

Sen. Jennifer McClellan [D]	Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]	Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]	Sen. John Edwards [D]
Sen. Janet Howell [D]	Sen. Lynwood Lewis [D]

2020-03-08 - Senate - Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (27-Y 12-N) (Y: 27 N: 12 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-08 - House - House: VOTE: Adoption #2 (60-Y 31-N 1-A) (Y: 60 N: 31 NV: 8 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2020-03-08 - House - House: VOTE: Adoption (61-Y 32-N 1-A) (Y: 61 N: 32 NV: 6 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2020-03-04 - Senate - Senate: Senate acceded to request (26-Y 14-N) (Y: 26 N: 14 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-02 - Senate - Senate: House substitute rejected by Senate (1-Y 39-N) (Y: 1 N: 39 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2020-02-28 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (64-Y 34-N 1-A) (Y: 64 N: 34 NV: 1 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2020-02-25 - House - House: Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (12-Y 7-N) (Y: 12 N: 7 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) (Y: 22 N: 18 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Substitute by Senator McClellan reconsidered (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Engrossment reconsidered by Senate (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N) (Y: 12 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-04-11		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1187)
2020-04-11		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 1187 (effective 7/1/20)
2020-03-20		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
2020-03-20	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
2020-03-19	House	Signed by Speaker
2020-03-18	Senate	Signed by President
2020-03-18	Senate	Enrolled
2020-03-18	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB710ER)
2020-03-08	Senate	Conference report agreed to by Senate (27-Y 12-N)
2020-03-08	House	VOTE: Adoption #2 (60-Y 31-N 1-A)
2020-03-08	House	Conference report agreed to by House (60-Y 31-N 1-A)
2020-03-08	House	Reconsideration of conference report agreed to by House
2020-03-08	House	VOTE: Adoption (61-Y 32-N 1-A)
2020-03-08	House	Conference report agreed to by House (61-Y 32-N 1-A)
2020-03-07	Senate	Conference substitute printed 20109867D-S3
2020-03-07		Conference: Amended by conference committee
2020-03-05	House	Delegates: Keam, Lopez, Runion
2020-03-05	House	Conferees appointed by House
2020-03-04	Senate	Senators: McClellan, Spruill, Vogel
2020-03-04	Senate	Conferees appointed by Senate
2020-03-04	Senate	Senate acceded to request (26-Y 14-N)
2020-03-03	House	House requested conference committee
2020-03-03	House	House insisted on substitute
2020-03-02	Senate	House substitute rejected by Senate (1-Y 39-N)
2020-02-28	House	VOTE: Passage (64-Y 34-N 1-A)
2020-02-28	House	Passed House with substitute (64-Y 34-N 1-A)
2020-02-28	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB710H1
2020-02-28	House	Committee substitute agreed to 20109142D-H1
2020-02-28	House	Read third time
2020-02-27	House	Read second time
2020-02-25	House	Committee substitute printed 20109142D-H1
2020-02-25	House	Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (12-Y 7-N)
2020-02-14	House	Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
2020-02-14	House	Read first time
2020-02-14	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-02-11	Senate	Passed Senate (22-Y 18-N)
2020-02-11	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-11	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB710S2
2020-02-11	Senate	Substitute by Senator McClellan agreed to 20108117D-S2
2020-02-11	Senate	Floor substitute printed 20108117D-S2 (McClellan)
2020-02-11	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2020-02-11	Senate	Substitute by Senator McCLellan rejected 20107969D-S1
2020-02-11	Senate	Substitute by Senator McClellan reconsidered (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-11	Senate	Engrossment reconsidered by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
2020-02-10	Senate	Passed by for the day
2020-02-07	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB710S1
2020-02-07	Senate	Substitute by Senator McClellan agreed to 20107969D-S1
2020-02-07	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2020-02-07	Senate	Read second time
2020-02-07	Senate	Floor substitute printed 20107969D-S1 (McClellan)
2020-02-06	Senate	Passed by for the day
2020-02-05	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-03	Senate	Reported from Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N)
2020-01-23	Senate	Assigned C&L sub: Energy
2020-01-07	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2020-01-07	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104871D

HB1647 (Same As) 2020-04-22 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1239)
HB572 (Same As) 2020-04-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1188)
HB1184 (Same As) 2020-04-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1189)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	2109.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB710
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB710+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB710S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB710S2+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB710H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB710S3+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB710ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP1187+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S02V0076+SB0710
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0357SB0710+SB0710
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0465SB0710+SB0710
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0466SB0710+SB0710
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0467SB0710+SB0710
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0468SB0710+SB0710
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H14V0325+SB0710
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV1612+SB0710
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1348SB0710+SB0710
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1511SB0710+SB0710
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV2101+SB0710
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV2085+SB0710
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1886SB0710+SB0710