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| Bill | Utilities, certain; notice procedures for nonpayment. | Electric, natural gas, and water or wastewater utilities; disconnection procedures for nonpayment. Requires certain utilities, for the purposes of required notices related to disconnections for nonpayment, to provide such notices in an additional language for customers residing in a locality that is required to provide voting or election materials in such additional language. The bill prohibits certain utilities from disconnecting a residential customer without making reasonable efforts to offer bill payment assistance, arrange a payment plan, or provide information to the customer for other bill payment assistance or energy savings programs. The bill directs the Department of Elections to post on its website a list of the localities designated as a covered locality for the purposes of providing voting or election materials in an additional minority language by September 1, 2026, and to update such list as necessary. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2026 | HB 1002 | Virginia HB 1002 (2026) |
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Virginia HB 1002 (2026) — Utilities, certain; notice procedures for nonpayment.
Electric, natural gas, and water or wastewater utilities; disconnection procedures for nonpayment. Requires certain utilities, for the purposes of required notices related to disconnections for nonpayment, to provide such notices in an additional language for customers residing in a locality that is required to provide voting or election materials in such additional language. The bill prohibits certain utilities from disconnecting a residential customer without making reasonable efforts to offer bill payment assistance, arrange a payment plan, or provide information to the customer for other bill payment assistance or energy savings programs. The bill directs the Department of Elections to post on its website a list of the localities designated as a covered locality for the purposes of providing voting or election materials in an additional minority language by September 1, 2026, and to update such list as necessary.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- Labor and Commerce Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Subcommittee #3 Subcommittee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute — 15–7 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — 8–6 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 7–2 (pass) · lower
- Passage R — 21–18 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — 7–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations — 17–5 (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — 61–35 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Kathy K.L. Tran — primary (person)
- Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
- Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
- Kannan Srinivasan — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
- Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
- Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-01-14 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102430D
filing, introduction - 2026-01-14 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
referral-committee - 2026-01-22 Assigned HCL sub: Subcommittee #3
referral-committee - 2026-02-03 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1002)
- 2026-02-03 House subcommittee offered
- 2026-02-03 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and referring to Appropriations (7-Y 2-N)
substitution - 2026-02-05 Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute and referred to Appropriations (15-Y 7-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-06 Committee substitute printed 26107044D-H1
substitution - 2026-02-06 Assigned HAPP sub: Health & Human Resources
referral-committee - 2026-02-11 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1002)
- 2026-02-13 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- 2026-02-13 Reported from Appropriations (17-Y 5-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-15 Read first time
reading-1 - 2026-02-16 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-02-16 committee substitute agreed to
substitution - 2026-02-16 Engrossed by House - committee substitute
substitution - 2026-02-17 Read third time and passed House (62-Y 35-N 0-A)
passage, reading-3 - 2026-02-18 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 2026-02-18 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
referral-committee - 2026-03-02 Reported from Commerce and Labor (8-Y 6-N)
committee-passage - 2026-03-04 Rules suspended
- 2026-03-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 2026-03-04 Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- 2026-03-05 Read third time
reading-3 - 2026-03-05 Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N 0-A)
passage - 2026-03-12 Enrolled
enrolled - 2026-03-12 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1002ER)
passage - 2026-03-12 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2026-03-12 Signed by President
passage - 2026-03-12 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1002)
- 2026-03-14 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2026
enrolled, executive-receipt - 2026-03-14 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
executive-receipt - 2026-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 250 (effective 7/1/2026)
executive-signature - 2026-04-06 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0250)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a3e60d6e-8e27-40ee-8865-ea1c903ece92. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).