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2020 SESSION
HB 573 Community solar development pilot program; low-income communities.
Introduced by: Mark L. Keam | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Community solar development pilot program; low-income communities. Requires each incumbent electric utility to select for dedication to its community solar development pilot program one or more eligible generating facilities that are located within a low-income community as a condition for the utility's selection for dedication to its program any eligible generating facility that is located outside a low-income community. The bill requires the costs of the selected facilities in low-income communities to equal or exceed the costs of the eligible generating facility that is located outside a low-income community. These requirements apply to facilities selected on or after July 1, 2020. The bill defines a low-income community as a census tract that is designated in 2019 or thereafter as a qualified census tract for purposes of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. Such census tracts are required to have 50 percent of households with incomes below 60 percent of the area median gross income or have a poverty rate of 25 percent or more.
FULL TEXT
- 01/06/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100585D pdf | impact statement
- 03/04/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB573ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/06/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0663) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/06/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100585D
- 01/06/20 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 01/15/20 House: Referred from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
- 01/15/20 House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
- 01/16/20 House: Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #3
- 01/30/20 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/20 House: Reported from Labor and Commerce (19-Y 1-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 (90-Y 8-N)
- 02/07/20 House: VOTE: Passage (90-Y 8-N)
- 02/10/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/10/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/24/20 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 2-N)
- 02/26/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/20 Senate: Read third time
- 02/27/20 Senate: Passed Senate (25-Y 14-N 1-A)
- 02/27/20 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/20 Senate: Passed Senate (27-Y 13-N)
- 03/04/20 House: Enrolled
- 03/04/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB573ER)
- 03/05/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/05/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/12/20 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- 03/12/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- 04/06/20 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 663 (effective 7/1/20)
- 04/06/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0663)