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HB573

Community solar development pilot program; low-income communities.

Status:
Enacted

Chief Patron:
Mark Keam (D)

Session:
2020 Regular Session

Summary

As Introduced. Community solar development pilot program; low-income communities.

Requires each incumbent electric utility to select for dedication to its community solar development pilot program one or more eligible generating facilities that are located within a low-income community as a condition for the utility's selection for dedication to its program any eligible generating facility that is located outside a low-income community. The bill requires the costs of the selected facilities in low-income communities to equal or exceed the costs of the eligible generating facility that is located outside a low-income community. These requirements apply to facilities selected on or after July 1, 2020. The bill defines a low-income community as a census tract that is designated in 2019 or thereafter as a qualified census tract for purposes of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. Such census tracts are required to have 50 percent of households with incomes below 60 percent of the area median gross income or have a poverty rate of 25 percent or more. (Less)

  • Bill History

  • 01/06/2020 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100585D
  • 01/06/2020 - House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
  • 01/11/2020 - House: Impact statement from SCC (HB573)
  • 01/15/2020 - House: Referred from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
  • 01/15/2020 - House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
  • 01/16/2020 - House: Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #3
  • 01/30/2020 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
  • 02/04/2020 - House: Reported from Labor and Commerce (19-Y 1-N)
  • 02/05/2020 - House: Read first time
  • 02/06/2020 - House: Read second time and engrossed
  • 02/07/2020 - House: Read third time and passed House (90-Y 8-N)
  • 02/07/2020 - House: VOTE: Passage (90-Y 8-N)
  • 02/10/2020 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 02/10/2020 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
  • 02/24/2020 - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 2-N)
  • 02/26/2020 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
  • 02/27/2020 - Senate: Read third time
  • 02/27/2020 - Senate: Passed Senate (25-Y 14-N 1-A)   Close Floor Vote
  • 02/27/2020 - Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
  • 02/27/2020 - Senate: Passed Senate (27-Y 13-N)
  • 03/04/2020 - House: Enrolled
  • 03/04/2020 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB573ER)
  • 03/05/2020 - House: Impact statement from SCC (HB573ER)
  • 03/05/2020 - House: Signed by Speaker
  • 03/05/2020 - Senate: Signed by President
  • 03/12/2020 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
  • 03/12/2020 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
  • 04/06/2020 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 663 (effective 7/1/20)
  • 04/06/2020 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0663)

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