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1999 SESSION
HB 2646 Public utilities; small power producers. etc.
Introduced by: Frank W. Wagner | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Public utilities; small power producers; exemption from utility regulation. Exempts from the definition of “public utility,” for the purpose of public utility rate and service regulation by the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) under Chapter 10 (§ 56-232 et seq.) of Title 56, small power producers (qualified as such under the federal Public Utilities Regulatory Act of 1978, and FERC regulations implementing the same) (i) whose rated capacity does not exceed 7.5 megawatts and (ii) whose output is not sold to residential customers. Under current law, small hydroelectric producers not exceeding 20 megawatts of rated capacity are exempt from SCC rate and service regulation if their output is sold to fewer than five end users, none of whom may be residential customers. The bill also exempts from SCC regulation aggregators of such small power producers.
FULL TEXT
- 01/21/99 House: Presented & ordered printed 994214480 pdf
- 02/06/99 House: Committee substitute printed 990264482-H1 pdf
- 03/04/99 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2646ER) pdf
- 04/01/99 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0419) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/21/99 House: Presented & ordered printed 994214480
- 01/21/99 House: Referred to Committee on Corporations, Insurance and Banking
- 01/28/99 House: Assigned to C. I. B. sub-committee: 1
- 02/06/99 House: Reported from C. I. B. w/sub. (26-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/99 House: Committee substitute printed 990264482-H1
- 02/06/99 House: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/07/99 House: Read second time
- 02/07/99 House: Committee substitute agreed to 990264482-H1
- 02/07/99 House: Engrossed by House - com. sub. 990264482-H1
- 02/08/99 House: Read third time and passed House (Block Vote) (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/99 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/99 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/10/99 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/10/99 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/22/99 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/99 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/99 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/99 Senate: Read third time
- 02/23/99 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/99 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/04/99 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2646ER)
- 03/08/99 House: Enrolled
- 03/08/99 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/09/99 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/25/99 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 419 (effective 7/1/99)
- 04/01/99 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0419)