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2020 SESSION

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HB 1656 Electric utilities; incentive programs for low-income customers.

Introduced by: Israel D. O'Quinn | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Electric utilities; incentive programs for low-income customers. Authorizes Dominion Energy Virginia and American Electric Power to recover, through a rate adjustment clause, the costs of designing, implementing, and operating programs to provide incentives to low-income, elderly, and disabled individuals who participate in an energy conservation program, or to organizations providing residential services to such individuals, for the installation of, or access to, solar energy generating equipment. The measure also clarifies that these utilities shall submit a petition for approval to design, implement, and operate a separate three-year incentive program, in an amount not to exceed $25 million in the aggregate, to enable the installation of, or access to, solar energy equipment, that is in addition to the existing $25 million in incentives the utilities are required to provide over three years to low-income, elderly, and disabled individuals for energy conservation measures.

FULL TEXT

• 01/17/20  House: Presented and ordered printed 20105595D  pdf | impact statement
• 03/12/20  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1656ER)  pdf | impact statement
• 04/07/20  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0801)  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/17/20  House: Presented and ordered printed 20105595D
• 01/17/20  House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
• 01/21/20  House: Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3
• 01/30/20  House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
• 02/04/20  House: Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N)
• 02/05/20  House: Read first time
• 02/06/20  House: Read second time and engrossed
• 02/07/20  House: Read third time and passed House (95-Y 4-N)
• 02/07/20  House: VOTE: Passage (95-Y 4-N)
• 02/10/20  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 02/10/20  Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
• 03/02/20  Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (11-Y 0-N)
• 03/04/20  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 03/05/20  Senate: Read third time
• 03/05/20  Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N)
• 03/12/20  House: Enrolled
• 03/12/20  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1656ER)
• 03/12/20  House: Signed by Speaker
• 03/12/20  Senate: Signed by President
• 03/17/20  House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 17, 2020
• 03/17/20  Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 04/07/20  Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 801 (effective 7/1/20)
• 04/07/20  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0801)