2025 Regular SessionVirginia Legislature

SB1281: Electric utilities; retail competition.

Legislative Summary

Electric utilities; retail competition. Authorizes a customer who is a customer of a Phase I Utility that had a typical residential customer bill for a residential customer using 1,000 kWh per month that exceeded 125 percent of the statewide average during the most recent calendar year to purchase electric energy from any supplier of electric energy licensed to sell retail electric energy within the Commonwealth. The bill also decreases the period that such a customer who switches from an investor-owned electric utility to a competing supplier is barred from returning as a customer of its utility from five years to 90 days.

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Bill History

1/8/2025
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102425D
Senate
1/8/2025
Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
Senate
1/27/2025
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (8-Y 7-N)
Senate

Roll Call Votes

Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (8-Y 7-N)
1/27/2025
8
Yea
7
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED

Status Information

Current Status
Introduced(1/8/2025)
Chamber
Senate

Sponsors

Republican: 2
Democrat: 1

Documents

Comm Sub
Bill Text1/27/20258.7 KB
Introduced
Bill Text1/8/202520.6 KB
Fiscal Note/Analysis
Fiscal Note/Analysis1/26/2025111.8 KB