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2022 SESSION
HB 894 Advanced small modular reactors; Department of Energy to study development in the Commonwealth.
Introduced by: Terry G. Kilgore | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Generation of electricity and energy development in the Commonwealth. Requires the Department of Energy, in cooperation with the Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium Authority, to convene a stakeholder work group to identify strategies and any needed public policies, including statutory or regulatory changes, for promoting the development of advanced small modular reactors in localities in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Department of Energy to consider the economic development of rural Virginia while minimizing the impact on prime farmland a key priority in updating its Virginia Energy Plan.
The bill requires the Virginia Cooperative Extension to develop and maintain a map or repository of prime farmland in the Commonwealth, in consultation with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the Department of Forestry, the Department of Conservation and Recreation, and the Department of Energy. An initial report of such map or repository shall be submitted the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2022.
Finally, the bill requires the State Corporation Commission to develop a program to encourage and expedite infrastructure investments by Dominion Energy Virginia or American Electric Power, in industrial sites determined to be relevant and in high demand by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership. The bill requires such program to be implemented by December 1, 2022, and the Commission is required to submit a report including recommendations for such program by December 15, 2022, to the Governor and General Assembly.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103708D pdf
- 02/08/22 House: Committee substitute printed 22106227D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/28/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22107180D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/10/22 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB894ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/11/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0488) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
HISTORY
- 01/12/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103708D
- 01/12/22 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy
- 02/08/22 House: Reported from Commerce and Energy with substitute (12-Y 10-N)
- 02/08/22 House: Committee substitute printed 22106227D-H1
- 02/08/22 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/09/22 House: Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources
- 02/11/22 House: Reported from Appropriations (18-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/22 House: Read first time
- 02/14/22 House: Read second time
- 02/14/22 House: Committee substitute agreed to 22106227D-H1
- 02/14/22 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB894H1
- 02/15/22 House: Read third time and passed House (52-Y 47-N)
- 02/15/22 House: VOTE: Passage (52-Y 47-N)
- 02/16/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/16/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/18/22 Senate: Assigned C&L sub: Energy
- 02/28/22 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22107180D-S1
- 02/28/22 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 03/02/22 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 03/03/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/04/22 Senate: Read third time
- 03/04/22 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 03/04/22 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 22107180D-S1
- 03/04/22 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB894S1
- 03/04/22 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/08/22 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 22107180D-S1 (76-Y 21-N)
- 03/08/22 House: VOTE: Adoption (76-Y 21-N)
- 03/10/22 House: Enrolled
- 03/10/22 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB894ER)
- 03/10/22 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/11/22 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/22/22 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- 03/22/22 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- 04/11/22 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 488 (effective 7/1/22)
- 04/11/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0488)