Waste coal; removal in public interest. (HB1326)

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Progress

✓	Introduced
✓	Passed Committee
✓	Passed House
✓	Passed Senate
✓	Signed by Governor
☐	Became Law

Description

Electric utilities; removal of waste coal from previously mined sites; Commission on Electric Utility Regulation; sunset. Provides that, in furtherance of the need to address the environmental hazards of abandoned coal mines, the removal of waste coal from previously mined sites in the coalfield region of the Commonwealth is in the public interest. The bill extends the sunset date for the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2024, and provides that the Commission may review information on the approximate volume and number of waste coal piles present in the coalfield region of the Commonwealth and options for cleaning up such waste coal piles. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Passed

History

Date	Action
01/21/2022	Committee
01/21/2022	Presented and ordered printed 22104901D
01/21/2022	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy
01/31/2022	Assigned sub: Subcommittee #3
01/31/2022	Impact statement from SCC (HB1326)
02/08/2022	Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
02/10/2022	Reported from Commerce and Energy (13-Y 9-N) (see vote tally)
02/13/2022	Read first time
02/14/2022	Read second time and engrossed
02/15/2022	Read third time and passed House (58-Y 41-N)
02/15/2022	VOTE: Passage (58-Y 41-N) (see vote tally)
02/16/2022	Constitutional reading dispensed
02/16/2022	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
02/18/2022	Assigned C&L sub: Energy
02/28/2022	Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
02/28/2022	Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/28/2022	Committee substitute printed 22107286D-S1
03/02/2022	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
03/03/2022	Read third time
03/03/2022	Reading of substitute waived
03/03/2022	Committee substitute agreed to 22107286D-S1
03/03/2022	Passed by for the day
03/04/2022	Read third time
03/04/2022	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1326S1
03/04/2022	Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
03/07/2022	Impact statement from DPB (HB1326S1)
03/08/2022	Senate substitute rejected by House 22107286D-S1 (0-Y 98-N)
03/08/2022	VOTE: Rejected (0-Y 98-N) (see vote tally)
03/09/2022	Senate insisted on substitute (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
03/09/2022	Senate requested conference committee
03/10/2022	House acceded to request
03/10/2022	Conferees appointed by House
03/10/2022	Delegates: Kilgore, Wampler, Kory
03/10/2022	Conferees appointed by Senate
03/10/2022	Senators: Spruill, Ebbin, Pillion
03/10/2022	C Amended by conference committee
03/10/2022	Conference substitute printed 22107657D-H1
03/11/2022	Conference report agreed to by House (74-Y 23-N)
03/11/2022	VOTE: Adoption (74-Y 23-N) (see vote tally)
03/11/2022	Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
03/21/2022	Enrolled
03/21/2022	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1326ER)
03/21/2022	Impact statement from DPB (HB1326H1)
03/21/2022	Impact statement from DPB (HB1326ER)
03/21/2022	Signed by President
03/22/2022	Signed by Speaker
03/22/2022	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
03/22/2022	G Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
04/07/2022	G Approved by Governor-Chapter 177 (effective 7/1/22)
04/07/2022	G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0177)