Virginia Senate Bill 696 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2018 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2018-01-25 - Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 7-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Virginia Alternative Energy and Coastal Protection Act. Directs the State Air Pollution Control Board to adopt regulations establishing a carbon dioxide cap and trade program to reduce emissions released by electric generation facilities. The regulations are required to comply with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative model rule. The measure authorizes the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality to establish, implement, and manage an auction program to sell allowances into a market-based trading program. The measure requires revenues from the sale of carbon allowances, to the extent permitted by Article X, Section 7 of the Constitution of Virginia, to be deposited in an interest-bearing account and to be distributed without further appropriation (i) to the Virginia Shoreline Resiliency Fund, (ii) to the VirginiaSAVES program, (iii) for certain programs in Southwest Virginia, and (iv) for administrative expenses.

Va. Alternative Energy & Coastal Protection Act; regulations to establish carbon dioxide cap, etc.

Sen. Lynwood Lewis [D]

Sen. Jennifer McClellan [D]

2018-01-25 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 7-N) (Y: 8 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-01-25	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 7-N)
2018-01-25	Senate	Committee substitute printed to LIS only 18106055D-S1
2018-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
2018-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103832D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB696
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB696+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB696S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S01V0034+SB0696