republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1819.md

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Bill	Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE); changes to financing program, definitions.	C-PACE financing programs. Makes several changes to the Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing program, including adding a definition of property owner to include a lessee and providing that the lessee may also be eligible for a C-PACE loan by complying with certain conditions, including consent of the fee simple property owner. The bill also (i) changes from two years to three years from a locality's issuance of a certificate of occupancy the time period within which a local C-PACE ordinance may allow submittal of a loan application and (ii) provides that a locality agrees to execute a locality agreement within 30 days of the adoption of the ordinance that opts them into the statewide C-PACE loan program.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1819	Virginia HB 1819 (2025)	bill		enacted	David A. Reid	5	36	8	2025-01-06	2025-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/347fab06-e23e-4f80-8851-c25161b13831	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1819	689d5fb991a4e225c8e6b6a495e35ac176e92424b140eda70cc0dc58b11984c8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1819 (2025) — Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE); changes to financing program, definitions.

C-PACE financing programs. Makes several changes to the Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing program, including adding a definition of property owner to include a lessee and providing that the lessee may also be eligible for a C-PACE loan by complying with certain conditions, including consent of the fee simple property owner. The bill also (i) changes from two years to three years from a locality's issuance of a certificate of occupancy the time period within which a local C-PACE ordinance may allow submittal of a loan application and (ii) provides that a locality agrees to execute a locality agreement within 30 days of the adoption of the ordinance that opts them into the statewide C-PACE loan program.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Counties, Cities and Towns Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Finance and Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Local Government and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 2-N) — 13–2 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with substitute (35-Y 0-N) — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate substitute agreed to by House (95-Y 1-N) — 95–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David A. Reid — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103112D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-06 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2025-01-13 Assigned CCT sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2025-01-16 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) substitution
• 2025-01-17 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-17 Committee substitute printed 25105156D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-21 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-22 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-22 Counties, Cities and Towns Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-22 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-01-23 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-01-24 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2025-01-29 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1819)
• 2025-02-10 Reported from Local Government and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-12 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-12 Committee substitute printed 25107292D-S1 substitution
• 2025-02-13 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-13 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-13 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-14 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1819)
• 2025-02-14 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-14 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-02-14 Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-14 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-14 Passed Senate with substitute (35-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-18 Senate substitute agreed to by House (95-Y 1-N) substitution
• 2025-02-20 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-20 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1819ER) passage
• 2025-02-20 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-23 Signed by President passage
• 2025-02-24 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1819)
• 2025-03-05 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 5, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-05 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 205 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0205)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/347fab06-e23e-4f80-8851-c25161b13831. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).