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Bill

Distributed solar & other renewable energy; sales of electricity under third-party agreements.

Distributed renewable energy. Promotes the establishment of distributed renewable solar and other renewable energy. The measure (i) requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation a shared solar program that allows multifamily customers of investor-owned utilities, other than American Electric Power, to purchase electric power through a subscription in a shared solar facility; (ii) raises the cap on the total amount of renewable energy that can be net metered in a utility's service territory from one percent to six percent, five percent of which is available to all customers and one percent of which is available only to low-income utility customers; (iii) raises the cap for net-metered nonresidential generation facilities from one megawatt to three megawatts; (iv) allows certain localities to install solar or wind facilities of up to five megawatts on government-owned property and use the electricity for government-owned buildings; (v) increases the cap on the capacity of generation from facilities from the customer's expected annual energy consumption to 150 percent of such amount for customers in Dominion Energy Virginia's service territory; (vi) prohibits standby charges for any residential customer-generator or agricultural customer-generator of an investor-owned utility other than Dominion Energy Virginia; and (vii) increases the cap on third party power purchase agreements to 500 megawatts for jurisdictional customers and 500 megawatts for nonjurisdictional customers of Dominion Energy Virginia and to 40 megawatts for customers of American Electric Power. The measure also amends the Commonwealth Energy Policy to include provisions supporting distributed generation of renewable energy. This bill is identical to HB 572, HB 1184, and HB 1647.

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Virginia General Assembly

2020

SB 710

Virginia SB 710 (2020)

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Jennifer L. McClellan

2020-01-07

2020-04-11

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ocd-bill/28b9dcfa-0f1c-45c9-9e42-96251ba56e1f

https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB710

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https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump

2026-07-06

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Virginia SB 710 (2020) — Distributed solar & other renewable energy; sales of electricity under third-party agreements.

Version chain

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

Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1187) (committee substitute) — source
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB710ER) (committee substitute) — source
Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB710S1 (committee substitute) — source
Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB710S2 (committee substitute) — source
Impact statement from SCC (SB710H1) (committee substitute) — source
Impact statement from SCC (SB710S3) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

Reported from Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N) — 12–3 (pass) · upper
Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (12-Y 7-N) — 12–7 (pass) · lower
House substitute rejected by Senate (1-Y 39-N) — 1–39 (fail) · upper
Senate acceded to request (26-Y 14-N) — 26–14 (pass) · upper
VOTE: Passage (64-Y 34-N 1-A) — 63–34 (pass) · lower
Passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) — 22–18 (pass) · upper
VOTE: Adoption #2 (60-Y 31-N 1-A) — 59–31 (pass) · lower
Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Engrossment reconsidered by Senate (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Conference report agreed to by Senate (27-Y 12-N) — 27–12 (pass) · upper
Substitute by Senator McClellan reconsidered (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
VOTE: Adoption (61-Y 32-N 1-A) — 60–32 (pass) · lower

Timeline

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

2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104871D introduction
2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
2020-01-16 Impact statement from SCC (SB710)
2020-01-23 Assigned C&L sub: Energy referral-committee
2020-02-03 Reported from Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N) committee-passage
2020-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-06 Passed by for the day
2020-02-07 Floor substitute printed 20107969D-S1 (McClellan)
2020-02-07 Read second time reading-2
2020-02-07 Reading of substitute waived
2020-02-07 Substitute by Senator McClellan agreed to 20107969D-S1
2020-02-07 Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB710S1
2020-02-10 Passed by for the day
2020-02-11 Engrossment reconsidered by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
2020-02-11 Substitute by Senator McClellan reconsidered (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-11 Substitute by Senator McCLellan rejected 20107969D-S1
2020-02-11 Reading of substitute waived
2020-02-11 Floor substitute printed 20108117D-S2 (McClellan)
2020-02-11 Substitute by Senator McClellan agreed to 20108117D-S2
2020-02-11 Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB710S2
2020-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-11 Passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) passage
2020-02-12 Impact statement from SCC (SB710S1)
2020-02-14 Placed on Calendar
2020-02-14 Read first time reading-1
2020-02-14 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
2020-02-14 Impact statement from SCC (SB710S2)
2020-02-25 Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (12-Y 7-N) committee-passage
2020-02-25 Committee substitute printed 20109142D-H1 substitution
2020-02-27 Read second time reading-2
2020-02-27 Impact statement from SCC (SB710H1)
2020-02-28 Read third time reading-3
2020-02-28 Committee substitute agreed to 20109142D-H1
2020-02-28 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB710H1
2020-02-28 Passed House with substitute (64-Y 34-N 1-A) passage
2020-02-28 VOTE: Passage (64-Y 34-N 1-A)
2020-03-02 House substitute rejected by Senate (1-Y 39-N)
2020-03-03 House insisted on substitute
2020-03-03 House requested conference committee
2020-03-04 Senate acceded to request (26-Y 14-N)
2020-03-04 Conferees appointed by Senate
2020-03-05 Conferees appointed by House
2020-03-07 Amended by conference committee
2020-03-07 Conference substitute printed 20109867D-S3
2020-03-08 Conference report agreed to by House (61-Y 32-N 1-A)
2020-03-08 VOTE: Adoption (61-Y 32-N 1-A)
2020-03-08 Reconsideration of conference report agreed to by House
2020-03-08 Conference report agreed to by House (60-Y 31-N 1-A)
2020-03-08 VOTE: Adoption #2 (60-Y 31-N 1-A)
2020-03-08 Conference report agreed to by Senate (27-Y 12-N)
2020-03-13 Impact statement from SCC (SB710S3)
2020-03-18 Enrolled
2020-03-18 Signed by President
2020-03-19 Signed by Speaker
2020-03-20 Impact statement from SCC (SB710ER)
2020-03-20 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
2020-03-20 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
2020-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 1187 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/28b9dcfa-0f1c-45c9-9e42-96251ba56e1f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

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