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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 HB 2644."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1197"
citation: "Virginia SB 1197 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Creigh Deeds"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 31
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d9c8f6c-2244-4893-931f-827395cdcb49"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1197"
source_hash: "8c390359a66c5269919b251007d923d4d166ea99e63724b326701e950407dc93"
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 SB 1197 (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 HB 2644.
## 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/1018197.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1078089.PDF)
3. **House Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1057905.HTML)
4. **Labor and Commerce Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1051637.HTML)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1066395.PDF)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- House Amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- R. Creigh Deeds — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104528D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-08** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27** Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (SB1197)
- **2025-01-27** Reported from Commerce and Labor and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-03** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-03** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-04** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-04** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-07** Placed on Calendar
- **2025-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-07** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-17** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-18** Labor and Commerce Amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-18** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2025-02-18** Passed House with amendment (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** House Amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1197ER) `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`
- **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 (SB1197)
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 598 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0598)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9d9c8f6c-2244-4893-931f-827395cdcb49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).