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type: "Bill"
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title: "Electric utilities; incentive programs for low-income customers."
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description: "Electric utilities; incentive programs for low-income customers. Authorizes Dominion Energy Virginia and American Electric Power to recover, through a rate adjustment clause, the costs of designing, implementing, and operating programs to provide incentives to low-income, elderly, and disabled individuals who participate in an energy conservation program, or to organizations providing residential services to such individuals, for the installation of, or access to, solar energy generating equipment. The measure also clarifies that these utilities shall submit a petition for approval to design, implement, and operate a separate three-year incentive program, in an amount not to exceed $25 million in the aggregate, to enable the installation of, or access to, solar energy equipment, that is in addition to the existing $25 million in incentives the utilities are required to provide over three years to low-income, elderly, and disabled individuals for energy conservation measures."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2020"
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identifier: "HB 1656"
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citation: "Virginia HB 1656 (2020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Israel D. O'Quinn"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 23
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2020-01-17"
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last_action: "2020-04-07"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98d1463d-dfbd-4b2d-b5bc-27a46c407a6c"
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source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1656"
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source_hash: "7468b25f493c0e27a12f8f7161583b48e995bc3d7a11f1a1641eeab6908380fc"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 1656 (2020) — Electric utilities; incentive programs for low-income customers.
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Electric utilities; incentive programs for low-income customers. Authorizes Dominion Energy Virginia and American Electric Power to recover, through a rate adjustment clause, the costs of designing, implementing, and operating programs to provide incentives to low-income, elderly, and disabled individuals who participate in an energy conservation program, or to organizations providing residential services to such individuals, for the installation of, or access to, solar energy generating equipment. The measure also clarifies that these utilities shall submit a petition for approval to design, implement, and operate a separate three-year incentive program, in an amount not to exceed $25 million in the aggregate, to enable the installation of, or access to, solar energy equipment, that is in addition to the existing $25 million in incentives the utilities are required to provide over three years to low-income, elderly, and disabled individuals for energy conservation measures.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0801)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0801)
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2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1656ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1656ER)
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3. **Impact statement from SCC (HB1656)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1656)
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## Votes
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- VOTE: Passage (95-Y 4-N) — **94–4** (pass) · lower
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- Reported from Commerce and Labor (11-Y 0-N) — **11–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) — **39–1** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
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- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — **10–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Israel D. O'Quinn — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-01-17** Presented and ordered printed 20105595D `introduction`
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- **2020-01-17** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
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- **2020-01-21** Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
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- **2020-01-28** Impact statement from SCC (HB1656)
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- **2020-01-30** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
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- **2020-02-04** Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2020-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2020-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2020-02-07** Read third time and passed House (95-Y 4-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2020-02-07** VOTE: Passage (95-Y 4-N)
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- **2020-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2020-02-10** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
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- **2020-03-02** Reported from Commerce and Labor (11-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2020-03-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
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- **2020-03-05** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2020-03-05** Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) `passage`
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- **2020-03-12** Enrolled
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- **2020-03-12** Signed by Speaker
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- **2020-03-12** Signed by President
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- **2020-03-13** Impact statement from SCC (HB1656ER)
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- **2020-03-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 17, 2020
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- **2020-03-17** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
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- **2020-04-07** Approved by Governor-Chapter 801 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98d1463d-dfbd-4b2d-b5bc-27a46c407a6c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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