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Bill	Electric utilities, certain; purchased power cost risk mitigation practices.	State Corporation Commission; electric utilities; fuel and purchased power cost risk mitigation practices. Directs the State Corporation Commission, in certain cost recovery proceedings and other annual filings as determined by the Commission, to examine the efficacy and sufficiency of fuel and purchased power cost risk mitigation practices by Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power. Under the bill, the Commission is required to include legislative recommendations related to effectively regulating fuel and purchased power cost risk in an existing report. This bill is identical to SB 505.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2026	HB 1256	Virginia HB 1256 (2026)	bill		enacted	Irene Shin	5	33	8	2026-01-14	2026-04-06	openstates	ocd-bill/6d3a3f94-56d3-4558-b959-793afcf2e92a	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB1256	2d3998d6e6cac0c68bc91ff4cdf1ffd1cdcc640a62d59a649ef8560cc31bf4d3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1256 (2026) — Electric utilities, certain; purchased power cost risk mitigation practices.

State Corporation Commission; electric utilities; fuel and purchased power cost risk mitigation practices. Directs the State Corporation Commission, in certain cost recovery proceedings and other annual filings as determined by the Commission, to examine the efficacy and sufficiency of fuel and purchased power cost risk mitigation practices by Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power. Under the bill, the Commission is required to include legislative recommendations related to effectively regulating fuel and purchased power cost risk in an existing report. This bill is identical to SB 505.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Labor and Commerce Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Subcommittee #3 Subcommittee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reconsider R — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Commerce and Labor — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage R — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage R — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• H VOTE: — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Irene Shin — primary (person)
• Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth R. Guzman — 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 26101578D filing, introduction
• 2026-01-14 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2026-01-27 Assigned HCL sub: Subcommittee #3 referral-committee
• 2026-02-01 Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (HB1256)
• 2026-02-10 House subcommittee offered
• 2026-02-10 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2026-02-12 Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2026-02-13 Committee substitute printed 26107686D-H1 substitution
• 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 (97-Y 0-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
• 2026-02-19 Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (HB1256)
• 2026-03-09 Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2026-03-10 Rules suspended
• 2026-03-10 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (37-Y 0-N 0-A)
• 2026-03-10 Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
• 2026-03-11 Read third time reading-3
• 2026-03-11 Passed Senate Block Vote (39-Y 0-N 0-A) passage
• 2026-03-11 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
• 2026-03-11 Passed Senate Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A) passage
• 2026-03-30 Enrolled enrolled
• 2026-03-30 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1256ER) passage
• 2026-03-30 Signed by President passage
• 2026-03-31 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2026-03-31 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 31, 2026 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2026-03-31 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 executive-receipt
• 2026-04-06 Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (HB1256)
• 2026-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 280 (effective 7/1/2026) executive-signature
• 2026-04-06 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0280)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6d3a3f94-56d3-4558-b959-793afcf2e92a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).