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type: "Bill"
title: "Hydroelectric plant; revenue sharing agreement among certain localities."
description: "Requires the Counties of Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Tazewell, and Wise and the City of Norton to enter into a perpetual revenue sharing agreement regarding a certain electric storage or generation facility to be located in one of these localities. The measure establishes the percentage of the revenue to be allocated to each locality and provides that the host locality shall receive an additional share of six percent of the revenue. Any direct costs of infrastructure improvements incurred by the host locality for purposes of the facility will be allocated among the localities in the same proportion as the revenues from the facility. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1555"
citation: "Virginia HB 1555 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Public Service Companies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Todd E. Pillion"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-19"
last_action: "2018-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/28c39e3d-0dec-4086-a26f-d6ef91a8be79"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1555"
source_hash: "9b651572fcd6449c9a1047c789d2444415637817966d3542f97965c17c218558"
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 HB 1555 (2018) — Hydroelectric plant; revenue sharing agreement among certain localities.
Requires the Counties of Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Tazewell, and Wise and the City of Norton to enter into a perpetual revenue sharing agreement regarding a certain electric storage or generation facility to be located in one of these localities. The measure establishes the percentage of the revenue to be allocated to each locality and provides that the host locality shall receive an additional share of six percent of the revenue. Any direct costs of infrastructure improvements incurred by the host locality for purposes of the facility will be allocated among the localities in the same proportion as the revenues from the facility. This bill is identical to
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1555ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1555ER)
2. **House: Committee substitute printed 18106283D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1555H1)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 18104884D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1555)
## Votes
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute — **210** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **1000** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **110** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **90** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-19** Presented and ordered printed 18104884D `introduction`
- **2018-01-19** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-23** Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-10** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-12** Committee substitute agreed to 18106283D-H1
- **2018-02-12** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1555H1
- **2018-02-13** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-14** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 232 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/28c39e3d-0dec-4086-a26f-d6ef91a8be79`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).