---
type: "Bill"
title: "Solar energy projects and energy storage systems; revenue share for projects and systems."
description: "Revenue share for solar energy projects.Provides that every five years the maximum amount of the revenue share that a locality may impose on certain solar energy projectsshall be adjusted by the percentage by which the Consumer Price Indexfor All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), as published by the Bureau of LaborStatistics of the U.S. Department of Labor, for the most recent calendaryear exceeds the CPI-U published at the close of the 12-month periodending on December 31, 2020. The bill also provides that the localitymay substitute the Marshall and Swift Building Cost Index, or anysuccessor index, for the CPI-U in its calculation of the adjustment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2269"
citation: "Virginia HB 2269 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steve E. Heretick"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2021-01-13"
last_action: "2021-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f30afae9-a7e8-4a54-9060-598bc0e64d02"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2269"
source_hash: "3ab17aa08fd3042e09b8992d5a812bc5d958c9fd6015d6c99f75dfce9a081125"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---

# Virginia HB 2269 (2021) — Solar energy projects and energy storage systems; revenue share for projects and systems.

Revenue share for solar energy projects.Provides that every five years the maximum amount of the revenue share that a locality may impose on certain solar energy projectsshall be adjusted by the percentage by which the Consumer Price Indexfor All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), as published by the Bureau of LaborStatistics of the U.S. Department of Labor, for the most recent calendaryear exceeds the CPI-U published at the close of the 12-month periodending on December 31, 2020. The bill also provides that the localitymay substitute the Marshall and Swift Building Cost Index, or anysuccessor index, for the CPI-U in its calculation of the adjustment.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **CHAP0429** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0429)
2. **Committee substitute printed 21103653D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2269H1)
3. **HB2269ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2269ER)
4. **Presented and ordered printed 21102751D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2269)

## Votes

- Referred from Labor and Commerce — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (91-Y 8-N) — **90–8** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance with substitute (19-Y 2-N) — **19–2** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (36-Y 1-N 1-A) — **36–1** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Rereferred from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (37-Y 1-N 1-A) — **37–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steve E. Heretick — primary (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-01-13** Presented and ordered printed 21102751D `introduction`
- **2021-01-13** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-15** Impact statement from TAX (HB2269)
- **2021-01-19** Referred from Labor and Commerce
- **2021-01-19** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-19** Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-25** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-01-25** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-27** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-01-27** Reported from Finance with substitute (19-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-27** Committee substitute printed 21103653D-H1 `substitution`
- **2021-01-28** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-01-29** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-01-29** Committee substitute agreed to 21103653D-H1
- **2021-01-29** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2269H1
- **2021-02-01** Read third time and passed House (91-Y 8-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-01** VOTE: Passage (91-Y 8-N)
- **2021-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-02-02** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Impact statement from TAX (HB2269H1)
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-15** Rereferred from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-15** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-17** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-18** Passed Senate (36-Y 1-N 1-A) `passage`
- **2021-02-18** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-18** Passed Senate (37-Y 1-N 1-A) `passage`
- **2021-02-22** Enrolled
- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
- **2021-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-24** Impact statement from TAX (HB2269ER)
- **2021-02-25** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
- **2021-02-25** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-30** Approved by Governor-Chapter 429 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f30afae9-a7e8-4a54-9060-598bc0e64d02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).