Fabio
98 lines
5.9 KiB
Markdown
98 lines
5.9 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "Bill"
|
||
title: "Mission-critical affected emergency generators; DEQ to promulgate administrative regulations."
|
||
description: "Department of Environmental Quality; administrative regulations; mission-critical affected emergency generators; emergency. Specifies that the State Air Pollution Control Board's administrative regulations shall allow any affected emergency generator, defined in the bill, to operate up to 50 hours per year for nonemergency purposes, including planned outages and switch gear and related electrical system testing, so as to be consistent with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's regulations for such generators. The bill directs the Department of Environmental Quality to promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of the bill without further action by the State Air Pollution Control Board. The bill contains an emergency clause."
|
||
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
|
||
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
|
||
session: "2025"
|
||
identifier: "SB 1407"
|
||
citation: "Virginia SB 1407 (2025)"
|
||
classification: ["bill"]
|
||
subjects: []
|
||
status: "enacted"
|
||
primary_sponsors: ["Bryce E. Reeves"]
|
||
version_count: 4
|
||
action_count: 32
|
||
vote_count: 6
|
||
first_action: "2025-01-14"
|
||
last_action: "2025-03-21"
|
||
source: "openstates"
|
||
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa716aad-cfd3-4712-a2ab-d96e6495808b"
|
||
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1407"
|
||
source_hash: "2ecce3049493e808e39d1a2278f14b1675ae9080dbae400461b6f3a27495d3e1"
|
||
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 1407 (2025) — Mission-critical affected emergency generators; DEQ to promulgate administrative regulations.
|
||
|
||
Department of Environmental Quality; administrative regulations; mission-critical affected emergency generators; emergency. Specifies that the State Air Pollution Control Board's administrative regulations shall allow any affected emergency generator, defined in the bill, to operate up to 50 hours per year for nonemergency purposes, including planned outages and switch gear and related electrical system testing, so as to be consistent with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's regulations for such generators. The bill directs the Department of Environmental Quality to promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of the bill without further action by the State Air Pollution Control Board. The bill contains an emergency clause.
|
||
|
||
## 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/1020305.PDF)
|
||
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1072603.PDF)
|
||
3. **General Laws and Technology Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1026478.PDF)
|
||
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1060181.PDF)
|
||
|
||
## Votes
|
||
|
||
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — **10–0** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
- Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
- Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) — **38–1** (pass) · upper
|
||
|
||
## Sponsors
|
||
|
||
- Bryce E. Reeves — primary (person)
|
||
- Christie New Craig — cosponsor (person)
|
||
|
||
## Timeline
|
||
|
||
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
|
||
|
||
- **2025-01-14** Presented and ordered printed 25103005D `introduction`
|
||
- **2025-01-14** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2025-01-22** Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
|
||
- **2025-01-22** Committee substitute printed 25105744D-S1 `substitution`
|
||
- **2025-01-24** Rules suspended
|
||
- **2025-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N)
|
||
- **2025-01-24** Passed by for the day
|
||
- **2025-01-26** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1407)
|
||
- **2025-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
|
||
- **2025-01-27** Reading of substitute waived
|
||
- **2025-01-27** General Laws and Technology Substitute agreed to
|
||
- **2025-01-27** Emergency clause added
|
||
- **2025-01-27** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
|
||
- **2025-01-28** Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
|
||
- **2025-02-05** Placed on Calendar
|
||
- **2025-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
|
||
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2025-02-06** Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2025-02-11** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
|
||
- **2025-02-13** Reported from Labor and Commerce (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** Passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
|
||
- **2025-02-20** Enrolled `enrolled`
|
||
- **2025-02-20** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1407ER) `passage`
|
||
- **2025-02-20** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1407)
|
||
- **2025-02-20** Signed by Speaker `passage`
|
||
- **2025-02-23** Signed by President `passage`
|
||
- **2025-03-05** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 5, 2025 `enrolled`
|
||
- **2025-03-05** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
|
||
- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 344 (Effective 03/21/25) `executive-signature`
|
||
- **2025-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0344)
|
||
|
||
## Source
|
||
|
||
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aa716aad-cfd3-4712-a2ab-d96e6495808b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
|
||
|