Electric utilities; resource planning. (SB311)
Introduced By
Sen. Roscoe Reynolds (D-Martinsville)
Progress
✓ |
Introduced |
✓ |
Passed Committee |
✓ |
Passed House |
✓ |
Passed Senate |
☐ |
Signed by Governor |
✓ |
Became Law |
Description
Electric utility planning. Requires investor-owned electric utilities and electric cooperatives to submit, by January 1, 2009, a procurement plan that sets forth how it intends to meet its obligation to provide electric generation supply for its customers over the next 20 years. The procurement plan shall integrate, over the term of the plan, the electric utility's forecast of demand with actions to meet the forecasted demand, and identify a portfolio of electric generation supply resources that is likely to provide the electric generation supply needed to meet the forecasted demand at the lowest total price with reasonable price stability so as to assure just and reasonable prices. Updated procurement plans will be filed every two years thereafter. State Corporation Commission approval of a procurement plan is required. The measure also restricts requirements that residential customers use advanced metering technologies. Read the Bill »
Outcome
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 01/08/2008 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 080107316 |
| 01/08/2008 | Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor |
| 01/16/2008 | Impact statement from SCC (SB311) |
| 02/11/2008 | Committee substitute printed 080193316-S1 |
| 02/11/2008 | Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
| 02/12/2008 | Read second time |
| 02/12/2008 | Reading of substitute waived |
| 02/12/2008 | Committee substitute agreed to 080193316-S1 |
| 02/12/2008 | Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB311S1 |
| 02/12/2008 | Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
| 02/12/2008 | Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
| 02/12/2008 | Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
| 02/12/2008 | Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
| 02/12/2008 | Communicated to House |
| 02/13/2008 | Placed on Calendar |
| 02/13/2008 | Read first time |
| 02/13/2008 | Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor |
| 02/15/2008 | Impact statement from SCC (SB311S1) |
| 02/19/2008 | Reported from Commerce and Labor (22-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
| 02/21/2008 | Read second time |
| 02/22/2008 | Read third time |
| 02/22/2008 | Passed House BLOCK VOTE (94-Y 0-N) |
| 02/22/2008 | VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (94-Y 0-N) |
| 02/25/2008 | Enrolled |
| 02/25/2008 | Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB311ER) |
| 02/25/2008 | Signed by Speaker |
| 02/26/2008 | Signed by President |
| 02/28/2008 | Impact statement from SCC (SB311ER) |
| 03/06/2008 | Governor's recommendation received by House |
| 03/06/2008 | Governor's substitute printed 089580802-S2 |
| 03/06/2008 | Governor's recommendation received by Senate |
| 03/06/2008 | Placed on Calendar |
| 03/07/2008 | Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
| 03/08/2008 | Enacted, Chapter (effective 7/1/08) |
| 03/08/2008 | House concurred in Governor's recommendation (100-Y 0-N) |
| 03/08/2008 | VOTE: --- ADOPTION (100-Y 0-N) |
| 03/08/2008 | G Governor's recommendation adopted |
| 03/08/2008 | Reenrolled |
| 03/08/2008 | Reenrolled bill text (SB311ER2) |
| 03/08/2008 | Signed by President as reenrolled |
| 03/08/2008 | Signed by Speaker as reenrolled |
| 03/08/2008 | Enacted, Chapter 476 (effective 7/1/08) |
| 03/12/2008 | Impact statement from SCC (SB311ER2) |
| 03/12/2008 | Impact statement from SCC (SB311S2) |
| 03/14/2008 | G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476) |
Comments
Would have loved to see SB 93 move forward but it didn't.However when the patron of the bill does not lobby their fellow Senate members to help with it, it is doomed from the start. From my conversations with some members of the Senate there was very little if any discussion of this bill. This is the one thing left concerning the outrageous electric bills consumers in Southside Virginia are being saddled with. It is not what is needed to fix the major blunder at the 2007 session with the deregulation, it is better than nothing. We have citizens here with light bills as high as their house payments! Seniors get a 2.5% raise and the light bill goes up 12%! I am not a math whiz by any means, but this isn't cutting it!