Energy planning & electric utility oversight; membership for Com. on Electricity Utility Regulation. (SB1166)

Introduced By

Sen. Scott Surovell (D-Mount Vernon) with support from co-patron Sen. Monty Mason (D-Williamsburg)

Progress

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

Description

Energy planning and electric utility oversight. Increases from 10 to 13 the membership of the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation (the Commission) by adding three nonlegislative citizen members; requires the Commission to annually elect a chairman and vice-chairman, meet twice annually, and receive an annual report from the State Corporation Commission by November 1 regarding the implementation of the Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act; requires newly appointed members of the Commission to receive an orientation on electric utility regulation from the State Corporation Commission; authorizes the Commission to employ an executive director and such other persons as it deems necessary and to employ experts who have knowledge of the issues before it; and extends the expiration of the Commission from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2029. The bill requires the Commission to (i) monitor applications by the Commonwealth for grants and awards for energy projects from the federal government, (ii) consider legislation referred to it during any session of the General Assembly or other requests by members of the General Assembly, and (iii) conduct studies and gather information and data in order to accomplish its purposes. The bill requires the Division of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency of the Department of Energy to present a draft of the Virginia Energy Plan or any updates to the Plan to the Virginia Coal and Energy Commission and the Commission at a public meeting and to present the final Plan to the Commission at a public meeting. The bill changes the date by which an electric utility is required to file its updated integrated resource plan from May 1 to October 15, in each year immediately preceding the year the utility is subject to a review of rates for generation and distribution services filing, and provides that after January 1, 2024, each electric utility not subject to an annual review shall file an annual update to the integrated resource plan by October 15, in each year that the utility is subject to review of rates for generation and distribution services filing. The bill requires electric utilities, as part of preparing any integrated resource plan, to conduct outreach to engage the public in a stakeholder review process and provide opportunities for the public to contribute information, input, and ideas on the utility's integrated resource plan including the plan's development methodology, modeling inputs, and assumptions, as well as the ability for the public to make relevant inquiries, to the utility when formulating its integrated resource plan and to report its public outreach efforts to the Commission. This bill is identical to HB 2275. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Passed

History

Date	Action
01/10/2023	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104221D
01/10/2023	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
01/23/2023	Impact statement from DPB (SB1166)
01/23/2023	Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
01/23/2023	Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (14-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
01/23/2023	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
02/02/2023	Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (10-Y 5-N) (see vote tally)
02/02/2023	Committee substitute printed 23106233D-S1
02/03/2023	Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
02/03/2023	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/06/2023	Read second time
02/06/2023	Committee amendment rejected
02/06/2023	Reading of substitute waived
02/06/2023	Committee substitute agreed to 23106233D-S1
02/06/2023	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1166S1
02/07/2023	Impact statement from DPB (SB1166S1)
02/07/2023	Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) (see vote tally)
02/10/2023	Placed on Calendar
02/10/2023	Read first time
02/10/2023	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy
02/14/2023	Reported from Commerce and Energy with substitute (21-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/14/2023	Committee substitute printed 23106898D-H1
02/14/2023	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
02/17/2023	Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/20/2023	Impact statement from DPB (SB1166H1)
02/21/2023	Read second time
02/22/2023	Read third time
02/22/2023	Committee substitute agreed to 23106898D-H1
02/22/2023	Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1166H1
02/22/2023	Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
02/22/2023	VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/22/2023	Reconsideration of House passage agreed to by House
02/22/2023	Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
02/22/2023	VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/23/2023	House substitute rejected by Senate (5-Y 35-N) (see vote tally)
02/23/2023	House insisted on substitute
02/23/2023	House requested conference committee
02/23/2023	Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/23/2023	Conferees appointed by Senate
02/23/2023	Senators: Surovell, Spruill, Norment
02/23/2023	Conferees appointed by House
02/23/2023	Delegates: Kilgore, Byron, Sullivan
02/25/2023	C Amended by conference committee
02/25/2023	Conference substitute printed 23107615D-S2
02/25/2023	Conference report agreed to by Senate (31-Y 9-N) (see vote tally)
02/25/2023	Conference report agreed to by House (93-Y 0-N)
02/25/2023	VOTE: Adoption (93-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/27/2023	Impact statement from DPB (SB1166S2)
03/07/2023	Enrolled
03/07/2023	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1166ER)
03/07/2023	Impact statement from DPB (SB1166ER)
03/08/2023	Signed by President
03/08/2023	Signed by Speaker
03/13/2023	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023
03/13/2023	G Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
03/27/2023	Governor's recommendation received by Senate
03/27/2023	Governor's substitute printed 23107770D-S3
04/12/2023	G Approved by Governor-Chapter 753 (effective 7/1/23)
04/12/2023	Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
04/12/2023	House concurred in Governor's recommendation (93-Y 0-N)
04/12/2023	VOTE: Adoption (93-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
04/12/2023	G Governor's recommendation adopted
04/12/2023	Reenrolled
04/12/2023	Reenrolled bill text (SB1166ER2)
04/12/2023	Signed by President as reenrolled
04/12/2023	Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
04/12/2023	Enacted, Chapter 753 (effective 7/1/23)
04/12/2023	G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0753)

Hearing Scheduled

This bill is scheduled to be heard in the Senate Commerce and Labor committee on 12/11/2023. It meets on Monday, 1/2 hour after adjournment - Senate Room B.