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| Bill | Land development; definitions, solar canopies in surface parking areas, delayed effective date. | Land development; solar canopies in parking areas. Provides that any locality may include in its land development ordinances a provision that requires that an applicant must install a solar canopy over designated surface parking areas. Such provisions shall apply only to nonresidential parking areas with 100 or more new off-street contiguous parking spaces and may require coverage of up to 50 percent of the surface parking area. The bill provides that an ordinance adopted pursuant to this bill shall be subject to various additional requirements and shall allow for deviations, in whole or in part, from the requirements of the ordinance when its strict application would prevent the development of uses and densities otherwise allowed by the locality's zoning or development ordinance or when a property owner shows that the solar canopy, if installed as otherwise required under the ordinance, will generate less than 75 percent of the electricity that would be expected, given the nameplate capacity of the solar modules installed on such canopy, if the canopy were to be installed at another location in the locality without surrounding impediments to insolation such as buildings or shading vegetation. Finally, the bill provides that the applicant or owner may use the electric energy generated from such solar canopy to offset the consumption of the parking lot or adjoining building served under the same account. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2027. This bill is identical to HB 1234. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2026 | SB 26 | Virginia SB 26 (2026) |
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Virginia SB 26 (2026) — Land development; definitions, solar canopies in surface parking areas, delayed effective date.
Land development; solar canopies in parking areas. Provides that any locality may include in its land development ordinances a provision that requires that an applicant must install a solar canopy over designated surface parking areas. Such provisions shall apply only to nonresidential parking areas with 100 or more new off-street contiguous parking spaces and may require coverage of up to 50 percent of the surface parking area. The bill provides that an ordinance adopted pursuant to this bill shall be subject to various additional requirements and shall allow for deviations, in whole or in part, from the requirements of the ordinance when its strict application would prevent the development of uses and densities otherwise allowed by the locality's zoning or development ordinance or when a property owner shows that the solar canopy, if installed as otherwise required under the ordinance, will generate less than 75 percent of the electricity that would be expected, given the nameplate capacity of the solar modules installed on such canopy, if the canopy were to be installed at another location in the locality without surrounding impediments to insolation such as buildings or shading vegetation. Finally, the bill provides that the applicant or owner may use the electric energy generated from such solar canopy to offset the consumption of the parking lot or adjoining building served under the same account. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2027. This bill is identical to HB 1234.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Delegate Sewell Amendments (committee substitute) — source
- Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
- House Amendments (committee substitute) — source
- Local Government Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Senator Carroll Foy Amendment (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed R — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Concur House Amendments R — 20–19 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Local Government with substitute — 8–7 (pass) · upper
- Passage R — 21–19 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — 18–3 (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — 75–21 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Jennifer D. Carroll Foy — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-11-17 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100558D
filing, introduction - 2025-11-17 Referred to Committee on Local Government
referral-committee - 2026-02-09 Senate committee offered
- 2026-02-09 Reported from Local Government with substitute (8-Y 7-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-09 Committee substitute printed 26107468D-S1
substitution - 2026-02-10 Rules suspended
- 2026-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 2026-02-10 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- 2026-02-11 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-02-11 Committee substitute agreed to
substitution - 2026-02-11 Floor offered Senator Carroll Foy Amendment
- 2026-02-11 Reading of amendment waived (Voice Vote)
- 2026-02-11 Senator Carroll Foy Amendment agreed to
amendment-passage - 2026-02-11 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute as amended (Voice Vote)
substitution - 2026-02-12 Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N 0-A)
passage, reading-3 - 2026-02-17 Placed on Calendar
- 2026-02-17 Read first time
reading-1 - 2026-02-17 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
referral-committee - 2026-02-20 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (18-Y 3-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-24 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-02-25 Floor offered Delegate Sewell Amendments
- 2026-02-25 Read third time
reading-3 - 2026-02-25 Delegate Sewell Floor amendments agreed to
amendment-passage - 2026-02-25 Engrossed by House as amended
- 2026-02-25 Passed House with amendments (75-Y 21-N 0-A)
passage - 2026-02-27 House amendments agreed to by Senate (20-Y 19-N 0-A)
amendment-passage - 2026-03-04 Enrolled
enrolled - 2026-03-04 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB26ER)
passage - 2026-03-04 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2026-03-04 Signed by President
passage - 2026-03-10 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026
enrolled, executive-receipt - 2026-03-10 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
executive-receipt - 2026-04-13 Approved by Governor-Chapter 758 (effective 7/1/2026)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4dab8a3f-5236-4402-9073-65e3aa47d16e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).