republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-573.md

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Bill	Community solar development pilot program; low-income communities.	Community solar development pilot program; low-income communities. Requires each incumbent electric utility to select for dedication to its community solar development pilot program one or more eligible generating facilities that are located within a low-income community as a condition for the utility's selection for dedication to its program any eligible generating facility that is located outside a low-income community. The bill requires the costs of the selected facilities in low-income communities to equal or exceed the costs of the eligible generating facility that is located outside a low-income community. These requirements apply to facilities selected on or after July 1, 2020. The bill defines a low-income community as a census tract that is designated in 2019 or thereafter as a qualified census tract for purposes of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. Such census tracts are required to have 50 percent of households with incomes below 60 percent of the area median gross income or have a poverty rate of 25 percent or more.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 573	Virginia HB 573 (2020)	bill		enacted	Mark L. Keam	3	27	9	2020-01-06	2020-04-06	openstates	ocd-bill/21a4a91c-3c6e-42d8-a688-152700738993	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB573	6da2b19bc75591c59755c0f89a1efe4814eefb8f3cab01ea03256eb8f626cdb4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 573 (2020) — Community solar development pilot program; low-income communities.

Community solar development pilot program; low-income communities. Requires each incumbent electric utility to select for dedication to its community solar development pilot program one or more eligible generating facilities that are located within a low-income community as a condition for the utility's selection for dedication to its program any eligible generating facility that is located outside a low-income community. The bill requires the costs of the selected facilities in low-income communities to equal or exceed the costs of the eligible generating facility that is located outside a low-income community. These requirements apply to facilities selected on or after July 1, 2020. The bill defines a low-income community as a census tract that is designated in 2019 or thereafter as a qualified census tract for purposes of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. Such census tracts are required to have 50 percent of households with incomes below 60 percent of the area median gross income or have a poverty rate of 25 percent or more.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0663) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB573ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from SCC (HB573) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Referred from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 2-N) — 13–2 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Labor and Commerce (19-Y 1-N) — 19–1 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (27-Y 13-N) — 27–13 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (90-Y 8-N) — 89–8 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (25-Y 14-N 1-A) — 25–14 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mark L. Keam — primary (person)
• Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100585D introduction
• 2020-01-06 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2020-01-11 Impact statement from SCC (HB573)
• 2020-01-15 Referred from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
• 2020-01-15 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2020-01-16 Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #3 referral-committee
• 2020-01-30 Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-04 Reported from Labor and Commerce (19-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-05 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-06 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-07 Read third time and passed House (90-Y 8-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-07 VOTE: Passage (90-Y 8-N)
• 2020-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-10 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2020-02-24 Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-27 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-27 Passed Senate (25-Y 14-N 1-A) passage
• 2020-02-27 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-27 Passed Senate (27-Y 13-N) passage
• 2020-03-04 Enrolled
• 2020-03-05 Impact statement from SCC (HB573ER)
• 2020-03-05 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-05 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
• 2020-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 663 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/21a4a91c-3c6e-42d8-a688-152700738993. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).