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Bill

Water utility or sewer utility asset acquisitions; fair market valuations.

Utility Transfers Act; water and sewer utilities.Authorizes a water or sewer public utility acquiring a water or sewersystem to elect to have its rate base established by using the fairmarket value of the system assets instead of the system's depreciatedoriginal cost. Under the procedure established in this bill, thefair market value of the system is the average of three appraisalsconducted by accredited and impartial utility valuation experts,who shall determine the fair market value of the system in compliancewith the uniform standards of professional appraisal practice, employingcost, market, and income approaches to assessment of value. The billprovides that the rate base value of the acquired system assets isthe authorized fees and costs plus the lesser of the purchase pricenegotiated between the acquiring utility and the selling utilityor the fair market value.

us/states/va

Virginia General Assembly

2020

SB 831

Virginia SB 831 (2020)

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enacted

Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr.

2020-01-08

2020-03-31

openstates

ocd-bill/65785dcc-4b53-438d-841b-85c3ecbba03e

https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB831

a2eacf86189f820d53769122c822fa186be220c2eb1eb40fa54d9705dbb02cde

2026-07-01

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

2026-07-06

reported

legislation

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us-va

Virginia SB 831 (2020) — Water utility or sewer utility asset acquisitions; fair market valuations.

Version chain

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

Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519) (committee substitute) — source
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB831ER) (committee substitute) — source
Impact statement from SCC (SB831) (committee substitute) — source
Impact statement from SCC (SB831S1) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (12-Y 0-N) — 12–0 (pass) · upper
Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
Reported from Labor and Commerce (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Timeline

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

2020-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104994D introduction
2020-01-08 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
2020-01-15 Impact statement from SCC (SB831)
2020-02-03 Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (12-Y 0-N) committee-passage
2020-02-03 Committee substitute printed 20107478D-S1 substitution
2020-02-03 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
2020-02-05 Impact statement from SCC (SB831S1)
2020-02-06 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
2020-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
2020-02-11 Read second time reading-2
2020-02-11 Reading of substitute waived
2020-02-11 Committee substitute agreed to 20107478D-S1
2020-02-11 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB831S1
2020-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-11 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
2020-02-11 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-11 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
2020-02-24 Placed on Calendar
2020-02-24 Read first time reading-1
2020-02-24 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
2020-02-25 Reported from Labor and Commerce (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
2020-02-27 Read second time reading-2
2020-02-28 Read third time reading-3
2020-02-28 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
2020-02-28 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
2020-03-05 Enrolled
2020-03-05 Impact statement from SCC (SB831ER)
2020-03-06 Signed by Speaker
2020-03-07 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
2020-03-31 Approved by Governor-Chapter 519 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/65785dcc-4b53-438d-841b-85c3ecbba03e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

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