republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2021/hb-1907.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electric utilities; advanced renewable energy buyers."
description: "Electric utilities; advanced renewable energybuyers. Provides that certain accelerated renewable energy buyersthat are customers of Dominion Energy Virginia and had subscribedto, as of March 1, 2020, a voluntary companion experimental tariffoffering for the purchase of renewable attributes from renewableenergy facilities that requires a renewable facilities agreementand the purchase of a minimum of 2,000 renewable attributes annuallyis exempt from the allocation of the net costs related to procurementof new solar or onshore wind generation capacity, energy, or environmentalattributes, or energy storage facilities, by Dominion Energy Virginia.The exemption is based on the amount of Renewable Energy Certificatesassociated with the customer's renewable facilities agreements associatedwith the tariff offering in proportion to the customer's total electricenergy consumption, on an annual basis."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1907"
citation: "Virginia HB 1907 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Richard C. \"Rip\" Sullivan, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-08"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/819b7ee5-2ee6-4c1d-aac4-db2eeef45442"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1907"
source_hash: "77b6d3c94b0c618a18d2bed81e458e4db84e28fdb420670bd39643de5f5974bf"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---

# Virginia HB 1907 (2021) — Electric utilities; advanced renewable energy buyers.

Electric utilities; advanced renewable energybuyers. Provides that certain accelerated renewable energy buyersthat are customers of Dominion Energy Virginia and had subscribedto, as of March 1, 2020, a voluntary companion experimental tariffoffering for the purchase of renewable attributes from renewableenergy facilities that requires a renewable facilities agreementand the purchase of a minimum of 2,000 renewable attributes annuallyis exempt from the allocation of the net costs related to procurementof new solar or onshore wind generation capacity, energy, or environmentalattributes, or energy storage facilities, by Dominion Energy Virginia.The exemption is based on the amount of Renewable Energy Certificatesassociated with the customer's renewable facilities agreements associatedwith the tariff offering in proportion to the customer's total electricenergy consumption, on an annual basis.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0140** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0140)
2. **HB1907ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1907ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100988D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1907)

## Votes

- Passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) — **38–1** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Labor and Commerce (19-Y 3-N) — **19–3** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 2-N) — **8–2** (pass) · lower
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (73-Y 25-N) — **72–25** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100988D `introduction`
- **2021-01-08** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14** Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-15** Impact statement from SCC (HB1907)
- **2021-01-25** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 2-N)
- **2021-01-26** Reported from Labor and Commerce (19-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-29** Read third time and passed House (73-Y 25-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-29** VOTE: Passage (73-Y 25-N)
- **2021-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-02-01** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-10** Assigned C&L sub: Energy `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-15** Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-18** Passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-22** Enrolled
- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
- **2021-02-23** Impact statement from SCC (HB1907ER)
- **2021-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-25** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
- **2021-02-25** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 140 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/819b7ee5-2ee6-4c1d-aac4-db2eeef45442`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).