| VA | HB109 | Engross
Sine Die | Electric utilities; regional transmission entities; annual report. Requires each incumbent electric utility that is a member of or has established a regional transmission entity for purposes of management and control of its transmission system as req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB137 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; State Corporation Commission; energy policy of the Commonwealth. Requires the State Corporation Commission to ensure that the Commonwealth implements the energy policy of the Commonwealth, as defined by relevant law, at the lowest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB230 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; energy efficiency programs; duty to implement the Energy Policy of the Commonwealth; RPS program requirements; competitive procurement. Provides that "in the public interest" for the purpose of assessing energy efficiency programs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB500 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; integrated resource plans; grid-enhancing technologies and advanced conductors. Requires an electric utility to include in an integrated resource plan a comprehensive assessment of the application of grid-enhancing technologies an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB485 | Intro
Sine Die | Employee protections; employer-sponsored meetings on political matters; civil action. Prohibits an employer from retaliating against an employee (i) because such employee declines to attend or participate in an employer-sponsored meeting or receive a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB591 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; customer energy choice; notice required for customer return to service. Removes certain restrictions on the ability of individual retail customers of electric energy within the Commonwealth, regardless of customer class, to purcha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB376 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; limit on cost-sharing payments for prescription drugs under certain plans. Requires each carrier that offers a health plan in either the individual or small group market to ensure that at least 50 percent of all health plans offered...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB735 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; denial of referral by direct primary care provider prohibited. Prohibits a health insurance carrier from (i) denying payment for any health care service covered under an enrollee's health benefit plan based solely on the basis that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB191 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; data center demand; allocation of costs among customer classes. Directs the State Corporation Commission to ensure that any plan, petition, or proposal from a utility to meet demand associated with data centers considers generatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB688 | Intro
Sine Die | Development of offshore wind capacity; prohibited cost recovery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; electric distribution infrastructure serving data centers. Prohibits the costs associated with the construction or extension of any electric distribution infrastructure that primarily serves the load of a data center from being re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB567 | Intro
Sine Die | Siting of energy facilities; approval by the State Corporation Commission. Establishes a procedure under which an electric utility or independent power provider (applicant) is able to obtain approval for a certificate from the State Corporation Commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB708 | Intro
Sine Die | Pilot program for underground transmission lines; qualifying projects. Increases the maximum capacity of qualifying electrical transmission lines, for purposes of the pilot project for underground transmission lines, from 230 kilovolts to 500 kilovol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB152 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; retail competition; aggregated competitive purchasers. Creates a limited exception to the requirement that the State Corporation Commission must find that a petition for certain competitive purchasers to aggregate their demands to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB346 | Intro
Sine Die | Net energy metering; solar interconnection; cost recovery. Provides that an electric distribution company shall pay $1 per kilowatt per day for the costs of lost electricity production for any and all delays beyond the regulatory notice period requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB578 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; offshore wind generation facilities; competitive procurement process; Department of Energy. Provides that the purchase by a public utility of energy, capacity, and environmental attributes from offshore wind generation facilities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB685 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum wage and overtime pay; warehouse distribution center employees and employers; civil action; civil penalty. Provides that (i) an employer that violates requirements in existing law relating to the minimum wage, payment of wages and salaries, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
