---
type: "Bill"
title: "Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE); changes to financing program, definitions."
description: "C-PACE financing programs. Makes several changes to the Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing program, including adding a definition of property owner to include a lessee and providing that the lessee may also be eligible for a C-PACE loan by complying with certain conditions, including consent of the fee simple property owner. The bill also (i) changes from two years to three years from a locality's issuance of a certificate of occupancy the time period within which a local C-PACE ordinance may allow submittal of a loan application and (ii) provides that a locality agrees to execute a locality agreement within 30 days of the adoption of the ordinance that opts them into the statewide C-PACE loan program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1819"
citation: "Virginia HB 1819 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David A. Reid"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 36
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-01-06"
last_action: "2025-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/347fab06-e23e-4f80-8851-c25161b13831"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1819"
source_hash: "689d5fb991a4e225c8e6b6a495e35ac176e92424b140eda70cc0dc58b11984c8"
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 1819 (2025) — Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE); changes to financing program, definitions.

C-PACE financing programs. Makes several changes to the Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing program, including adding a definition of property owner to include a lessee and providing that the lessee may also be eligible for a C-PACE loan by complying with certain conditions, including consent of the fee simple property owner. The bill also (i) changes from two years to three years from a locality's issuance of a certificate of occupancy the time period within which a local C-PACE ordinance may allow submittal of a loan application and (ii) provides that a locality agrees to execute a locality agreement within 30 days of the adoption of the ordinance that opts them into the statewide C-PACE loan program.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1013219.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071964.PDF)
3. **Counties, Cities and Towns Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1021330.PDF)
4. **Finance and Appropriations Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1050047.PDF)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1059394.PDF)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) — **7–1** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Local Government and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 2-N) — **13–2** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with substitute (35-Y 0-N) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate substitute agreed to by House (95-Y 1-N) — **95–1** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David A. Reid — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103112D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-06** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Assigned CCT sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-16** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) `substitution`
- **2025-01-17** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-17** Committee substitute printed 25105156D-H1 `substitution`
- **2025-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-01-22** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-01-22** Counties, Cities and Towns Substitute agreed to
- **2025-01-22** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-01-23** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-01-24** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1819)
- **2025-02-10** Reported from Local Government and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12** Committee substitute printed 25107292D-S1 `substitution`
- **2025-02-13** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-13** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-13** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-14** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1819)
- **2025-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-14** Reading of substitute waived
- **2025-02-14** Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
- **2025-02-14** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-14** Passed Senate with substitute (35-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-18** Senate substitute agreed to by House (95-Y 1-N) `substitution`
- **2025-02-20** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-20** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1819ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-20** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-23** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-02-24** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1819)
- **2025-03-05** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 5, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-05** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 205 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0205)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/347fab06-e23e-4f80-8851-c25161b13831`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).