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type: "Bill"
title: "Electric energy; consumption reduction goal, annual progress reports."
description: "Directs the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, in consultation with the staff of the State Corporation Commission, to report annually, commencing no later than December 15, 2018, on the progress the Commonwealth is making toward meeting the goal adopted in 2007 of reducing the consumption of electric energy by retail customers by the year 2022 by an amount equal to 10 percent of the amount of electric energy consumed by retail customers in 2006. The bill requires the reports to be made to the General Assembly, the Governor, and the Governor's Executive Committee on Energy Efficiency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 990"
citation: "Virginia SB 990 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Mines and Mining", "Public Service Companies", "Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rosalyn R. Dance"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c64d2ee-f2ea-45df-ab00-f5868cf8fbc3"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB990"
source_hash: "f3d06e2c783aad2071ad3a6abae823249136bb2b46e18d5cba319dcc8fc09912"
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 990 (2017) — Electric energy; consumption reduction goal, annual progress reports.
Directs the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, in consultation with the staff of the State Corporation Commission, to report annually, commencing no later than December 15, 2018, on the progress the Commonwealth is making toward meeting the goal adopted in 2007 of reducing the consumption of electric energy by retail customers by the year 2022 by an amount equal to 10 percent of the amount of electric energy consumed by retail customers in 2006. The bill requires the reports to be made to the General Assembly, the Governor, and the Governor's Executive Committee on Energy Efficiency.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0568)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0568)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB990ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB990ER)
3. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104559D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB990S1)
4. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101033D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB990)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed Senate — **327** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House — **8116** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House — **7423** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **173** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute — **141** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **344** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Rosalyn R. Dance — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101033D `introduction`
- **2017-01-03** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-26** Reading of substitute waived
- **2017-01-26** Committee substitute agreed to 17104559D-S1
- **2017-01-26** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB990S1
- **2017-01-31** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-31** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-17** Passed House (81-Y 16-N 2-A) `passage`
- **2017-02-17** Reconsideration of House passage agreed to by House
- **2017-02-17** Passed House (74-Y 23-N 1-A) `passage`
- **2017-02-22** Enrolled
- **2017-02-22** Signed by President
- **2017-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-23** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/23/17
- **2017-02-23** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 568 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c64d2ee-f2ea-45df-ab00-f5868cf8fbc3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).