republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1934.md

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Bill	Electric utilities; generation of electricity from renewable and zero carbon sources.	Electric utilities; generation of electricity from renewable and zero carbon sources; projects on or adjacent to public elementary or secondary schools. Provides that for purposes of compliance with a renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS) program, to the extent that low-income qualifying projects, as defined in existing law, are not available and projects located on or adjacent to public elementary or secondary schools are available, a certain percentage of the required projects shall be composed of projects located on or adjacent to public elementary or secondary schools. This bill is identical to SB 1192.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1934	Virginia HB 1934 (2025)	bill		enacted	Destiny LeVere Bolling	6	38	12	2025-01-06	2025-05-02	openstates	ocd-bill/88483d4f-5ca0-40dc-a38a-bf53163eed0a	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1934	d326ca9aa4f5ddbd8e231abd020ebb29df680b291b3c6f4867c415601641b121	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1934 (2025) — Electric utilities; generation of electricity from renewable and zero carbon sources.

Electric utilities; generation of electricity from renewable and zero carbon sources; projects on or adjacent to public elementary or secondary schools. Provides that for purposes of compliance with a renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS) program, to the extent that low-income qualifying projects, as defined in existing law, are not available and projects located on or adjacent to public elementary or secondary schools are available, a certain percentage of the required projects shall be composed of projects located on or adjacent to public elementary or secondary schools. This bill is identical to SB 1192.

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. Governor Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
5. Governor's Signature Explanation (committee substitute) — source
6. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N) — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (65-Y 33-N) — 65–33 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations (13-Y 8-N) — 13–8 (pass) · lower
• Reconsideration of Passed Senate with substitute block vote agreed to (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed by for the day — 47–46 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Commerce and Labor and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Labor and Commerce and rereferred to Appropriations (17-Y 5-N) — 17–5 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting and rereferred to Appropriations (8-Y 2-N) — 8–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Destiny LeVere Bolling — primary (person)
• Amy J. Laufer — cosponsor (person)
• Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
• Carrie E. Coyner — cosponsor (person)
• Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
• Mamie E. Locke — cosponsor (person)
• Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Webert — cosponsor (person)
• Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
• Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25102153D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-06 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2025-01-16 Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3 referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (HB1934)
• 2025-01-21 Subcommittee recommends reporting and referred to Appropriations (8-Y 2-N)
• 2025-01-23 Reported from Labor and Commerce and referred to Appropriations (17-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-24 Assigned Approps sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2025-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N)
• 2025-01-29 Reported from Appropriations (13-Y 8-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (65-Y 33-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2025-02-10 Reported from Commerce and Labor and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-19 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-19 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-20 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-20 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-20 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1934ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-18 Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (HB1934)
• 2025-03-24 Governor's recommendation received by House executive-veto-line-item
• 2025-03-24 Governor's substitute printed (HB1934H1)
• 2025-04-02 Passed by for the day (47-Y 46-N)
• 2025-04-02 Communicated to Governor
• 2025-04-02 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 2, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-05-02 Governor's Signature Explanation
• 2025-05-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 708 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-05-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/88483d4f-5ca0-40dc-a38a-bf53163eed0a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).