---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electric utilities; nonjurisdictional customers, third party power purchase agreements."
description: "Electric utilities; nonjurisdictional customers;third party power purchase agreements. Provides that for pilotprograms under which an owner or operator of a renewable energy generationfacility sells electricity to an eligible customer-generator througha third party power purchase agreement, both jurisdictional and nonjurisdictionalcustomers may participate on a first-come, first-serve basis."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1420"
citation: "Virginia SB 1420 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John S. Edwards"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-13"
last_action: "2021-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4147d823-1b55-46f5-86ab-3b31c7c1e04b"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1420"
source_hash: "4fae3dd9e2fe7652332b3ba8d2a07cf9228e1ea927da3c2fb1203de35fdfa163"
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 SB 1420 (2021) — Electric utilities; nonjurisdictional customers, third party power purchase agreements.

Electric utilities; nonjurisdictional customers;third party power purchase agreements. Provides that for pilotprograms under which an owner or operator of a renewable energy generationfacility sells electricity to an eligible customer-generator througha third party power purchase agreement, both jurisdictional and nonjurisdictionalcustomers may participate on a first-come, first-serve basis.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0362** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0362)
2. **Presented and ordered printed 21102297D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1420)
3. **SB1420ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1420ER)

## Votes

- Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Labor and Commerce (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- John S. Edwards — primary (person)
- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-13** Presented and ordered printed 21102297D `introduction`
- **2021-01-13** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-20** Impact statement from SCC (SB1420)
- **2021-01-25** Assigned C&L sub: Energy `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-01** Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-04** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-07** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-07** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce
- **2021-02-11** Reported from Labor and Commerce (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-15** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-16** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-16** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-19** Enrolled
- **2021-02-21** Impact statement from SCC (SB1420ER)
- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
- **2021-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-24** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 24, 2021
- **2021-02-24** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-25** Approved by Governor-Chapter 362 (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/4147d823-1b55-46f5-86ab-3b31c7c1e04b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).