Virginia Senate Bill 271 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on April 7 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-04-07 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0775)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Public institutions of higher education; public-private partnerships; wind and solar power. Permits each public institution of higher education to enter into a public-private partnership with any private entity whereby such entity is permitted to use at no cost property owned or controlled by such public institution of higher education for the generation of wind or solar power in exchange for offering educational immersion programs for high school students and students at public institutions of higher education that provide hands-on education and training in the construction, operations, and maintenance of its wind or solar power generators. The bill requires any energy produced by such solar or wind power generators to be (i) used to provide power for the partner public institution of higher education or (ii) introduced to applicable power grids and sold at market rates, with profits split as agreed upon by the private entity and the partner public institution of higher education. The bill requires any such profits gained by the partner public institution of higher education to be used to further research, expand clean energy education programs, or lower student tuition rates.

Higher educational institutions, public; public-private partnerships, wind and solar power.

Sen. John Bell [D]

2020-02-24 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (94-Y 6-N) (Y: 94 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-19 - House - House: Reported from Education (18-Y 2-N) (Y: 18 N: 2 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-19 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-10 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-10 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-07 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-04-07		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0775)
2020-04-07		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 775 (effective 7/1/20)
2020-03-10		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
2020-03-10	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 10, 2020
2020-02-27	House	Signed by Speaker
2020-02-27	Senate	Signed by President
2020-02-27	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB271ER)
2020-02-27	Senate	Enrolled
2020-02-24	House	VOTE: Passage (94-Y 6-N)
2020-02-24	House	Passed House (94-Y 6-N)
2020-02-24	House	Read third time
2020-02-21	House	Read second time
2020-02-19	House	Reported from Education (18-Y 2-N)
2020-02-19	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
2020-02-13	House	Assigned Education sub: Post-Secondary and Higher Ed
2020-02-13	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2020-02-13	House	Read first time
2020-02-13	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-02-10	Senate	Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2020-02-10	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2020-02-10	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2020-02-07	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
2020-02-06	Senate	Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
2020-01-29	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
2020-01-03	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2020-01-03	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102614D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
23	1	108	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB271
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB271+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB271ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0775+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S04V0142+SB0271
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0410SB0271+SB0271
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0450SB0271+SB0271
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0451SB0271+SB0271
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H0902V0053+SB0271
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H09V0234+SB0271
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV1285+SB0271