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type: "Bill"
title: "Electric cooperative subsidiaries; customers exceeding 90 megawatts demand."
description: "Electric cooperative subsidiaries; customers exceeding 90 megawatts demand. Permits electric cooperatives, through one or more of their affiliates, to make unregulated sales of electric power to certain customers that contract for electric utility services to serve a demand that is reasonably expected to exceed 90 megawatts. This bill is identical to SB 1197."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2644"
citation: "Virginia HB 2644 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark D. Sickles"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 28
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/128b4b86-2c6e-4034-b5f9-64322d762a15"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2644"
source_hash: "9eb1aaa3a722dfcf91d81cba1a76a5776293c22250756ef027c56c1c9c55cac5"
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 2644 (2025) — Electric cooperative subsidiaries; customers exceeding 90 megawatts demand.
Electric cooperative subsidiaries; customers exceeding 90 megawatts demand. Permits electric cooperatives, through one or more of their affiliates, to make unregulated sales of electric power to certain customers that contract for electric utility services to serve a demand that is reasonably expected to exceed 90 megawatts. This bill is identical to SB 1197.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1020084.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1076859.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1066578.PDF)
## Votes
- Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Labor and Commerce (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 0-N) — **50** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Mark D. Sickles — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-14** Presented and ordered printed 25104125D `introduction`
- **2025-01-14** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #4 `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (HB2644)
- **2025-01-30** Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-30** Reported from Labor and Commerce (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-04** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2025-02-04** Passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-18** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-18** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-18** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-19** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2644ER) `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`
- **2025-03-24** Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (HB2644)
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 499 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0499)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/128b4b86-2c6e-4034-b5f9-64322d762a15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).