Virginia Senate Bill 653 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on April 6 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-04-06 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0725)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Renewable energy property grants. Establishes, beginning with fiscal year 2016, grants for placing into service renewable energy property. The grant would equal 35 percent of the costs paid or incurred to place the renewable energy property into service, not to exceed $2.5 million for any individual piece of renewable energy property. The bill provides that grants in excess of 2.5 percent of the total program appropriation for the relevant fiscal year would be paid in three equal calendar year installments. No grant would be awarded for renewable energy property that generated electricity within the 12 months preceding the date of the grant application or renewable energy property paid for by utility ratepayer funds. The bill defines renewable energy as energy derived from sunlight, wind, falling water, biomass, waste, landfill gas, municipal solid waste, wave motion, tides, or geothermal power, but not including energy derived from coal, oil, natural gas, or nuclear power. The Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy would administer the grant program. The Department would be authorized, subject to appropriation, to award up to $10 million in renewable energy property grants for fiscal year 2016. The act contains a second enactment that requires the act to be reenacted in the 2015 General Assembly in order to become effective.

Renewable energy property; grants for placing into service, Renewable Energy Property Grant Fund.

Sen. Thomas Norment [R]

2014-02-26 - House - House: VOTE: AGREE TO (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 101 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-26 - Senate - Senate: House amendment agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N) (Y: 38 N: 1 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-26 - House - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (90-Y 8-N) (Y: 91 N: 8 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-26 - House - House: VOTE: AGREE TO (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 101 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-25 - House - House: Reported from Appropriations with amendment (20-Y 2-N) (Y: 20 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-10 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) (Y: 39 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance with substitute (17-Y 0-N) (Y: 17 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-04-06		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0725)
2014-04-06		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 725 (effective - see bill)
2014-03-03	Senate	Signed by President
2014-03-03	House	Signed by Speaker
2014-02-28	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB653ER)
2014-02-28	Senate	Enrolled
2014-02-26	Senate	House amendment agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N)
2014-02-26	House	VOTE: PASSAGE (90-Y 8-N)
2014-02-26	House	Passed House with amendment (90-Y 8-N)
2014-02-26	House	Engrossed by House as amended
2014-02-26	House	Committee amendment agreed to
2014-02-26	House	VOTE: AGREE TO (99-Y 0-N)
2014-02-26	House	Constitutional readings dispensed (99-Y 0-N)
2014-02-25	House	Reported from Appropriations with amendment (20-Y 2-N)
2014-02-18	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2014-02-18	House	Referred from Commerce and Labor by voice vote
2014-02-12	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2014-02-12	House	Read first time
2014-02-12	House	Placed on Calendar
2014-02-10	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 1-N)
2014-02-07	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB653S1
2014-02-07	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 14104843D-S1
2014-02-07	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2014-02-07	Senate	Read second time
2014-02-06	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2014-02-05	Senate	Committee substitute printed 14104843D-S1
2014-02-05	Senate	Reported from Finance with substitute (17-Y 0-N)
2014-01-17	Senate	Referred to Committee on Finance
2014-01-17	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 14103588D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
58	1	439.12:11	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+SB653
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+SB653+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+SB653S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+SB653ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+CHAP0725+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+S05V0132+SB0653
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0301SB0653+SB0653
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0334SB0653+SB0653
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+H02V0213+SB0653
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+HV1129+SB0653
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+HV1134+SB0653
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0604SB0653+SB0653
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+HV1476+SB0653