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Bill

Clean Energy and Community Flood Preparedness Act; definitions, funds, report.

Clean Energy and Community Flood Preparedness Act; fund. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to incorporate into regulations previously adopted by the State Air Pollution Control Board certain provisions establishing a carbon dioxide cap and trade program to reduce emissions released by electric generation facilities. Such provisions are required to comply with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative model rule. The bill authorizes the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality to establish, implement, and manage an auction program to sell allowances into a market-based trading program. The bill requires revenues from the sale of carbon allowances, to the extent permitted by Article X, Section 7 of the Constitution of Virginia, to be deposited in an interest-bearing account and to be distributed without further appropriation (i) to the Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund; (ii) to the Department of Housing and Community Development for low-income energy efficiency programs; (iii) for administrative expenses; and (iv) to the Department of Housing and Community Development in partnership with the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy to administer and implement low-income energy efficiency programs. The bill continues the Virginia Shoreline Resiliency Fund as the Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund for the purpose of creating a low-interest loan program to help inland and coastal communities that are subject to recurrent or repetitive flooding. The bill authorizes the Authority to pledge the assets of the Fund as security for any bonds issued to finance flood prevention or protection projects and directs the Authority to manage the Fund in accordance with a memorandum of agreement with the Department. The bill also authorizes any locality using moneys in the Fund to provide a loan for a project in a low-income geographic area to forgive the principal of such loan, with the obligation of the locality to repay the loan remaining in effect. The bill provides that if the Governor seeks to include the Commonwealth as a full participant in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the regulations shall require that certain purchasers be responsible for obtaining allowances under certain agreements. The measure authorizes the costs of allowances to be recovered by Phase I and Phase II Utilities from ratepayers. This bill incorporates HB 20 and HB 1152 and is identical to SB 1027.

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Virginia General Assembly

2020

HB 981

Virginia HB 981 (2020)

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enacted

Charniele L. Herring

2020-01-07

2020-04-22

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https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB981

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2026-07-06

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Virginia HB 981 (2020) — Clean Energy and Community Flood Preparedness Act; definitions, funds, report.

Version chain

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

Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1219) (committee substitute) — source
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB981ER) (committee substitute) — source
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB981S2 (committee substitute) — source
Impact statement from DPB (HB981H1) (committee substitute) — source
Impact statement from DPB (HB981S1) (committee substitute) — source
Reenrolled bill text (HB981ER2) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

Referred from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — 0–0 (fail) · lower
Passed Senate with substitute (22-Y 18-N) — 22–18 (pass) · upper
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (12-Y 4-N) — 12–4 (pass) · upper
Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (8-Y 7-N) — 8–7 (pass) · upper
Reported from Appropriations (13-Y 9-N) — 13–9 (pass) · lower
VOTE: (50-Y 45-N) — 49–45 (pass) · lower
VOTE: Passage (53-Y 46-N) — 52–46 (pass) · lower
Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N) — 5–2 (pass) · lower
Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (13-Y 9-N) — 13–9 (pass) · lower
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 4-N) — 6–4 (pass) · lower
Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (24-Y 16-N) — 24–16 (pass) · upper
VOTE: Adoption (50-Y 43-N) — 49–43 (pass) · lower

Timeline

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

2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20105070D introduction
2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
2020-01-14 Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake referral-committee
2020-01-22 Referred from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2020-01-22 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
2020-01-28 Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3 referral-committee
2020-01-30 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
2020-01-30 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 4-N)
2020-01-30 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
2020-02-04 Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (13-Y 9-N) committee-passage
2020-02-04 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
2020-02-04 Committee substitute printed 20106683D-H1 substitution
2020-02-04 Incorporates HB20 (Lindsey)
2020-02-04 Incorporates HB1152 (Lopez)
2020-02-05 Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources referral-committee
2020-02-07 Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N)
2020-02-07 Reported from Appropriations (13-Y 9-N) committee-passage
2020-02-09 Read first time reading-1
2020-02-10 Impact statement from DPB (HB981H1)
2020-02-10 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
2020-02-10 Read second time reading-2
2020-02-10 Committee substitute agreed to 20106683D-H1
2020-02-10 Amendments by Delegate Wyatt withdrawn amendment-withdrawal
2020-02-10 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB981H1
2020-02-11 Read third time and passed House (53-Y 46-N) passage, reading-3
2020-02-11 VOTE: Passage (53-Y 46-N)
2020-02-12 Constitutional reading dispensed
2020-02-12 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
2020-02-18 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (8-Y 7-N) committee-passage
2020-02-18 Committee substitute printed 20108601D-S1 substitution
2020-02-18 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
2020-02-25 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (12-Y 4-N) committee-passage
2020-02-25 Impact statement from DPB (HB981S1)
2020-02-25 Committee substitute printed 20108602D-S2 substitution
2020-02-26 VOTE: Adoption (50-Y 43-N)
2020-02-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2020-02-26 Read third time reading-3
2020-02-26 Committee substitute rejected 20108601D-S1
2020-02-26 Reading of substitute waived
2020-02-26 Committee substitute agreed to 20108602D-S2
2020-02-26 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB981S2
2020-02-26 Passed Senate with substitute (22-Y 18-N) passage
2020-02-26 Senate substitute agreed to by House 20108602D-S2 (50-Y 43-N)
2020-03-02 Enrolled
2020-03-02 Impact statement from DPB (HB981ER)
2020-03-02 Signed by Speaker
2020-03-03 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
2020-04-11 Governor's recommendation received by House
2020-04-22 Placed on Calendar
2020-04-22 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (50-Y 45-N)
2020-04-22 VOTE: (50-Y 45-N)
2020-04-22 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (24-Y 16-N)
2020-04-22 Governor's recommendation adopted
2020-04-22 Reenrolled
2020-04-22 Reenrolled bill text (HB981ER2)
2020-04-22 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
2020-04-22 Signed by President as reenrolled
2020-04-22 Enacted, Chapter 1219 (effective 7/1/20) became-law

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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e2424d57-af5e-432d-8814-32cf6f92f704. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

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