republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-1707.md

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Bill	Clean Energy Advisory Board; increases membership.	Clean Energy Advisory Board. Expands the membership of the Clean Energy Advisory Board (the Board) from 15 to 17 members. The measure specifies that one of the new members shall be an expert with experience implementing low-income and middle-income incentive and loan programs for distributed renewable energy resources and that the other new member shall be an attorney who maintains a legal practice dedicated to rural development, rural electrification, and energy policy. The measure also repeals the sunset provision for the Board, which is scheduled to expire on July 1, 2022, and directs the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, in consultation with the Board, to develop guidelines to administer any public power renewable grant program established by the general appropriation act.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 1707	Virginia HB 1707 (2020)	bill		enacted	Lashrecse D. Aird	4	30	6	2020-01-17	2020-04-07	openstates	ocd-bill/2310dbf6-aed5-4444-bdb2-7a4c09cb72cf	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1707	bb5c83d9c3b26f046fcd881197b5b3d2d8a5ea45b7b707ec73c782070bf6e332	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1707 (2020) — Clean Energy Advisory Board; increases membership.

Clean Energy Advisory Board. Expands the membership of the Clean Energy Advisory Board (the Board) from 15 to 17 members. The measure specifies that one of the new members shall be an expert with experience implementing low-income and middle-income incentive and loan programs for distributed renewable energy resources and that the other new member shall be an attorney who maintains a legal practice dedicated to rural development, rural electrification, and energy policy. The measure also repeals the sunset provision for the Board, which is scheduled to expire on July 1, 2022, and directs the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, in consultation with the Board, to develop guidelines to administer any public power renewable grant program established by the general appropriation act.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0803) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1707ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House - floor substitute HB1707H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (HB1707) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (9-Y 5-N) — 9–5 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendment (16-Y 6-N) — 16–6 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (24-Y 13-N) — 24–13 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (65-Y 33-N) — 64–33 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lashrecse D. Aird — primary (person)
• Jennifer Carroll Foy — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-17 Presented and ordered printed 20105433D introduction
• 2020-01-17 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2020-01-22 Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2020-01-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB1707)
• 2020-01-29 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (8-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-29 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendment (16-Y 6-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-01-31 Floor substitute printed 20107153D-H1 (Aird)
• 2020-02-03 Passed by temporarily
• 2020-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-03 Committee amendment rejected
• 2020-02-03 Substitute by Delegate Aird agreed to 20107153D-H1
• 2020-02-03 Engrossed by House - floor substitute HB1707H1
• 2020-02-04 Impact statement from DPB (HB1707H1)
• 2020-02-04 Read third time and passed House (65-Y 33-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-04 VOTE: Passage (65-Y 33-N)
• 2020-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-05 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2020-02-25 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (9-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-27 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-28 Passed Senate (24-Y 13-N) passage
• 2020-03-05 Enrolled
• 2020-03-05 Impact statement from DPB (HB1707ER)
• 2020-03-06 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-06 Signed by President
• 2020-03-12 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
• 2020-03-12 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-04-07 Approved by Governor-Chapter 803 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2310dbf6-aed5-4444-bdb2-7a4c09cb72cf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).