Virginia Senate Bill 1289 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Passed on February 24 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-02-24 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0253)
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 HB 1671.

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

Sen. Benton Chafin [R]

Sen. Charles Carrico [R]

2017-02-24 - House - House: VOTE: ADOPTION (92-Y 0-N) (Y: 92 N: 0 NV: 8 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-23 - Senate - Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-10 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (95-Y 0-N) (Y: 95 N: 0 NV: 5 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-07 - House - House: Reported from Commerce and Labor (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-25 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-23 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-24		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0253)
2017-02-24	House	Enacted, Chapter 253 (effective 7/1/17)
2017-02-24	House	Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
2017-02-24	Senate	Signed by President as reenrolled
2017-02-24	Senate	Reenrolled bill text (SB1289ER2)
2017-02-24	Senate	Reenrolled
2017-02-24		Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
2017-02-24	House	VOTE: ADOPTION (92-Y 0-N)
2017-02-24	House	House concurred in Governor's recommendation (92-Y 0-N)
2017-02-23	Senate	Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (39-Y 0-N)
2017-02-21	Senate	Governor's recommendation received by Senate
2017-02-14		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2017
2017-02-14	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/14/17
2017-02-13	House	Signed by Speaker
2017-02-13	Senate	Signed by President
2017-02-13	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1289ER)
2017-02-13	Senate	Enrolled
2017-02-10	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (95-Y 0-N)
2017-02-10	House	Passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N)
2017-02-10	House	Read third time
2017-02-09	House	Read second time
2017-02-07	House	Reported from Commerce and Labor (21-Y 0-N)
2017-01-31	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2017-01-31	House	Read first time
2017-01-31	House	Placed on Calendar
2017-01-27	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2017-01-26	Senate	Printed as engrossed 17101108D-E
2017-01-26	Senate	Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1289E
2017-01-26	Senate	Committee amendment agreed to
2017-01-26	Senate	Reading of amendment waived
2017-01-26	Senate	Read second time
2017-01-25	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2017-01-23	Senate	Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
2017-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2017-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101108D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1289
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1289+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1289E+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1289ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1289ER2+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0253+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S02V0034+SB1289
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0122SB1289+SB1289
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0147SB1289+SB1289
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H14V0091+SB1289
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+HV2182+SB1289
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0961SB1289+SB1289
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+HV2757+SB1289