republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2018/hb-1555.md

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Bill	Hydroelectric plant; revenue sharing agreement among certain localities.	Requires the Counties of Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Tazewell, and Wise and the City of Norton to enter into a perpetual revenue sharing agreement regarding a certain electric storage or generation facility to be located in one of these localities. The measure establishes the percentage of the revenue to be allocated to each locality and provides that the host locality shall receive an additional share of six percent of the revenue. Any direct costs of infrastructure improvements incurred by the host locality for purposes of the facility will be allocated among the localities in the same proportion as the revenues from the facility. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2018	HB 1555	Virginia HB 1555 (2018)	bill	Counties Cities and Towns Public Service Companies	enacted	Todd E. Pillion	3	17	6	2018-01-19	2018-03-09	openstates	ocd-bill/28c39e3d-0dec-4086-a26f-d6ef91a8be79	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1555	9b651572fcd6449c9a1047c789d2444415637817966d3542f97965c17c218558	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1555 (2018) — Hydroelectric plant; revenue sharing agreement among certain localities.

Requires the Counties of Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Tazewell, and Wise and the City of Norton to enter into a perpetual revenue sharing agreement regarding a certain electric storage or generation facility to be located in one of these localities. The measure establishes the percentage of the revenue to be allocated to each locality and provides that the host locality shall receive an additional share of six percent of the revenue. Any direct costs of infrastructure improvements incurred by the host locality for purposes of the facility will be allocated among the localities in the same proportion as the revenues from the facility. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

1. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1555ER) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Committee substitute printed 18106283D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Presented and ordered printed 18104884D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 100–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Commerce and Labor — 11–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 9–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-19 Presented and ordered printed 18104884D introduction
• 2018-01-19 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2018-01-23 Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #3 referral-committee
• 2018-02-10 Read first time reading-1
• 2018-02-12 Read second time reading-2
• 2018-02-12 Committee substitute agreed to 18106283D-H1
• 2018-02-12 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1555H1
• 2018-02-13 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2018-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2018-02-14 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2018-02-22 Read third time reading-3
• 2018-02-26 Enrolled
• 2018-02-26 Signed by Speaker
• 2018-02-28 Signed by President
• 2018-03-02 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
• 2018-03-02 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
• 2018-03-09 Approved by Governor-Chapter 232 (effective 7/1/18) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/28c39e3d-0dec-4086-a26f-d6ef91a8be79. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).