republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2426.md

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Bill	Small renewable energy projects; amends definition, permit by rule.	Small renewable energy projects; permit by rule. Amends the definition of "small renewable energy project" for the purposes of obtaining a permit by rule from the Department of Environmental Quality to include interconnection facilities, as defined in the bill. The bill requires that the Department of Environmental Quality and the State Corporation Commission enter into a memorandum of understanding to implement the provisions of the bill. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2426	Virginia HB 2426 (2025)	bill		enacted	Katrina Callsen	11	45	11	2025-01-08	2025-05-02	openstates	ocd-bill/a52f3147-e181-4a1f-9d7d-8b8540992f7f	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2426	e287219a3ed8027ac849be5f8b052b1e7f84d7331c0712891e9a281893eeef1e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2426 (2025) — Small renewable energy projects; amends definition, permit by rule.

Small renewable energy projects; permit by rule. Amends the definition of "small renewable energy project" for the purposes of obtaining a permit by rule from the Department of Environmental Quality to include interconnection facilities, as defined in the bill. The bill requires that the Department of Environmental Quality and the State Corporation Commission enter into a memorandum of understanding to implement the provisions of the bill. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Appropriations Amendment (committee substitute) — source
3. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. Commerce and Labor Amendment (committee substitute) — source
5. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. Finance and Appropriations Amendment (committee substitute) — source
7. Governor Substitute Not Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
9. Labor and Commerce Amendments (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Amendment (committee substitute) — source
11. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Senate Amendment agreed to by House (90-Y 6-N) — 90–6 (pass) · lower
• House rejected Governor's recommendation (27-Y 69-N) — 27–69 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (17-Y 4-N) — 17–4 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (91-Y 8-N) — 91–8 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (6-Y 4-N) — 6–4 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with amendment (23-Y 15-N 1-A) — 23–15 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 1-N) — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (10-Y 3-N 1-A) — 10–3 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 2-N 1-A) — 12–2 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendment(s) and rereferred to Appropriations (17-Y 5-N) — 17–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Katrina Callsen — primary (person)
• Amy J. Laufer — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102397D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3 referral-committee
• 2025-01-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (6-Y 4-N)
• 2025-01-24 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2426)
• 2025-01-28 Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendment(s) and referred to Appropriations (17-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-29 Assigned Approps sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2025-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 1-N)
• 2025-01-29 Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (17-Y 4-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Labor and Commerce Amendments rejected amendment-failure
• 2025-02-03 Appropriations Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-02-03 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2025-02-03 Printed as engrossed 25102397D-E
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (91-Y 8-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
• 2025-02-06 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2426)
• 2025-02-10 Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 2-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (10-Y 3-N 1-A) 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 Commerce and Labor Amendment rejected amendment-failure
• 2025-02-20 Reading of amendment waived
• 2025-02-20 Finance and Appropriations Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-02-20 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2025-02-20 Passed Senate with amendment (23-Y 15-N 1-A) passage
• 2025-02-20 Senate Amendment agreed to by House (90-Y 6-N) amendment-passage
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2426ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2426)
• 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
• 2025-03-24 Governor's recommendation received by House executive-veto-line-item
• 2025-03-24 Governor's substitute printed (HB2426H1)
• 2025-04-02 House rejected Governor's recommendation (27-Y 69-N) veto-override-passage
• 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 Approved by Governor-Chapter 710 (Effective 07/01/26) executive-signature
• 2025-05-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0710)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a52f3147-e181-4a1f-9d7d-8b8540992f7f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).