Virginia House Bill 1671 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on April 5 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-04-05 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0780)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Qualified projects of natural gas utilities. Exempts any natural gas utility serving fewer than 2,000 residential customers and fewer than 350 commercial and industrial customers in the year in which the utility makes an investment for qualifying projects from the provision that limits the amount of investment that a natural gas utility may make in qualifying projects to one percent of its net plant investment that was used in establishing base rates in its most recent rate case. The existing exemption to the one percent cap was enacted in 2013 and applies to any natural gas utility serving fewer than 1,000 residential customers and fewer than 250 commercial and industrial customers in such year. Legislation enacted in 2012 established a mechanism for natural gas utilities to recover the eligible infrastructure development costs of a qualifying project through future rates. A qualifying project is an economic development project for which, among other things, the utility has received a binding commitment from the developer or occupant of the proposed project regarding capacity or a financial guaranty from the developer or state or local government in the amount of at least 50 percent of the estimated investment to be made in the proposed project. This bill is identical to SB 1289.

Natural gas utilities; qualified projects, investments in eligible infrastructure.

Del. James Morefield [R]

2017-04-05 - Senate - Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-04-05 - House - House: VOTE: ADOPTION (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-16 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-16 - Senate - Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-16 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-15 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-13 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (11-Y 0-N) (Y: 11 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-24 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N) (Y: 97 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-17 - House - House: Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (20-Y 0-N) (Y: 20 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-04-05		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0780)
2017-04-05	House	Enacted, Chapter 780 (effective 7/1/17)
2017-04-05	Senate	Signed by President as reenrolled
2017-04-05	House	Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
2017-04-05	House	Reenrolled bill text (HB1671ER2)
2017-04-05	House	Reenrolled
2017-04-05		Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
2017-04-05	Senate	Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
2017-04-05	House	VOTE: ADOPTION (100-Y 0-N)
2017-04-05	House	House concurred in Governor's recommendation (100-Y 0-N)
2017-04-05	House	Placed on Calendar
2017-03-03	House	Governor's recommendation received by House
2017-02-21		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
2017-02-21	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
2017-02-21	Senate	Signed by President
2017-02-20	House	Signed by Speaker
2017-02-20	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1671ER)
2017-02-20	House	Enrolled
2017-02-16	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2017-02-16	Senate	Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2017-02-16	Senate	Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2017-02-16	Senate	Read third time
2017-02-15	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2017-02-13	Senate	Reported from Commerce and Labor (11-Y 0-N)
2017-01-25	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2017-01-25	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2017-01-24	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
2017-01-24	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
2017-01-23	House	Printed as engrossed 17102752D-E
2017-01-23	House	Engrossed by House as amended HB1671E
2017-01-23	House	Committee amendment agreed to
2017-01-23	House	Read second time
2017-01-20	House	Passed by for the day
2017-01-19	House	Read first time
2017-01-17	House	Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (20-Y 0-N)
2017-01-05	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2017-01-05	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102752D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1671
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1671+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1671E+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1671ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1671ER2+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0780+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H14V0032+HB1671
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+HV1517+HB1671
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S02V0103+HB1671
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0554HB1671+HB1671
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0597HB1671+HB1671
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0598HB1671+HB1671
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0599HB1671+HB1671
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+HV2873+HB1671
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV1154HB1671+HB1671