2025 Regular Session • Virginia Legislature
SB1197: Electric cooperative subsidiaries; customers exceeding 90 megawatts demand.
Legislative Summary
Electric cooperative subsidiaries; customers exceeding 90 megawatts demand. Permits electric cooperatives, through one or more of their affiliates, to make unregulated sales of electric power to certain customers that contract for electric utility services to serve a demand that is reasonably expected to exceed 90 megawatts. This bill is identical to HB 2644.
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Bill History
1/8/2025
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104528D
Senate
1/8/2025
Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
Senate
1/27/2025
Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (SB1197)
Senate
1/27/2025
Reported from Commerce and Labor and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
Senate
1/30/2025
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
Senate
2/3/2025
Rules suspended
Senate
2/3/2025
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
Senate
2/3/2025
Passed by for the day
Senate
2/4/2025
Read second time and engrossed
Senate
2/4/2025
Rules suspended
Senate
2/4/2025
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
Senate
2/4/2025
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
Senate
2/7/2025
Placed on Calendar
House of Delegates
2/7/2025
Read first time
House of Delegates
2/7/2025
Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
House of Delegates
2/13/2025
Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
House of Delegates
2/17/2025
Read second time
House of Delegates
2/18/2025
Read third time
House of Delegates
2/18/2025
Labor and Commerce Amendment agreed to
House of Delegates
2/18/2025
Engrossed by House as amended
House of Delegates
2/18/2025
Passed House with amendment (97-Y 0-N)
House of Delegates
2/19/2025
House Amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
Senate
3/7/2025
Enrolled
Senate
3/7/2025
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1197ER)
Senate
3/7/2025
Signed by Speaker
House of Delegates
3/10/2025
Signed by President
Senate
3/11/2025
Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025
Senate
3/11/2025
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
3/24/2025
Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (SB1197)
Senate
3/24/2025
Approved by Governor-Chapter 598 (Effective 07/01/25)
3/24/2025
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0598)
Amendments
House Amendment
House Amendment
Not Adopted
Labor and Commerce Amendment
Labor and Commerce Amendment
Not Adopted
Roll Call Votes
House Amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2/19/2025
40
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED
Passed House with amendment (97-Y 0-N)
2/18/2025
97
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
3
Absent
Result: PASSED
Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
2/13/2025
22
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
2/4/2025
39
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
1
Absent
Result: PASSED
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2/4/2025
40
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
2/3/2025
40
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
1/30/2025
15
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED
Reported from Commerce and Labor and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
1/27/2025
15
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED
Status Information
Current Status
Passed(3/24/2025)
Chamber
Senate
Sponsors
Democrat: 1
Primary Sponsor
Creigh Deeds
Democrat