Electric utility regulation; approval of generating facilities.
Summary
Electric utility regulation; approval of generating facilities. Allows the State Corporation Commission, in its consideration of an application for approval of an electrical generating facility, to consider environmental effects not expressly governed by a permit or expressly considered by a permitting authority, including carbon emissions and the overall impacts of new and existing facilities on the health and welfare of the residents of the Commonwealth. The measure also removes provisions that prohibited the Commission from imposing additional conditions with respect to such matters.
Bill status
failed
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 8, 2020
Last action Feb 6, 2020
Floor votes
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
7
Key actions
1
Committee
4
Feb 6, 2020
Lower · Passed
House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Jan 22, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
lower
Jan 22, 2020
Committee
Referred from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
lower
Jan 8, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
lower
Jan 8, 2020
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103331D
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Kaye Kory
DDemocratic
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