republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-2477.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electric utilities; licensed retail suppliers."
description: "Provides that customers of an incumbent electric utility that is required to obtain capacity for all load and expected load growth in its service area shall, if they purchase energy from a supplier licensed to sell retail electric energy within the Commonwealth, continue to pay their incumbent electric utility for the non-fuel generation capacity and transmission related costs incurred by the incumbent electric utility in order to meet such customers' capacity obligations. The measure provides that the advance written notice period applicable to such customers shall be three years. The measure does not apply to customers of licensed suppliers that had an agreement with a licensed supplier entered into before February 1, 2019, or had aggregation petitions pending before the State Corporation Commission prior to January 1, 2019, unless and until such a customer has returned to its incumbent electric utility.The measure requires each licensed retail supplier serving customers of Appalachian Power to file annual reports with the Commission and provides that the failure to do so constitutes grounds for suspension or revocation of its license."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2477"
citation: "Virginia HB 2477 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Service Companies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Terry G. Kilgore"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 28
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3b86f80a-66f9-4f07-9764-c78608c43b63"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2477"
source_hash: "ec129b368c6fc55171872ebd3a0d05b7135dc8dcec545db19f8b294f9bfde956"
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 2477 (2019) — Electric utilities; licensed retail suppliers.

Provides that customers of an incumbent electric utility that is required to obtain capacity for all load and expected load growth in its service area shall, if they purchase energy from a supplier licensed to sell retail electric energy within the Commonwealth, continue to pay their incumbent electric utility for the non-fuel generation capacity and transmission related costs incurred by the incumbent electric utility in order to meet such customers' capacity obligations. The measure provides that the advance written notice period applicable to such customers shall be three years. The measure does not apply to customers of licensed suppliers that had an agreement with a licensed supplier entered into before February 1, 2019, or had aggregation petitions pending before the State Corporation Commission prior to January 1, 2019, unless and until such a customer has returned to its incumbent electric utility.The measure requires each licensed retail supplier serving customers of Appalachian Power to file annual reports with the Commission and provides that the failure to do so constitutes grounds for suspension or revocation of its license.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0833)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0833)
2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2477AH)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2477ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2477ER)
4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19105704D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2477H1)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19104210D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2477)
6. **House: Printed as engrossed 19105704D-EH1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2477EH1)
7. **House: Reenrolled bill text (HB2477ER2)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2477ER2)

## Votes

- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute — **15–2** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- House concurred in Governor's recommendation — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House — **58–38** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Terry G. Kilgore — primary (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19104210D `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-04** Committee substitute agreed to 19105704D-H1
- **2019-02-04** Amendments by Delegate Kilgore agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-04** Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendments HB2477EH1
- **2019-02-04** Printed as engrossed 19105704D-EH1
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House (58-Y 38-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Passed by for the day
- **2019-02-15** Passed by for the day
- **2019-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled
- **2019-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-21** Signed by President
- **2019-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
- **2019-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-25** Governor's recommendation received by House
- **2019-04-03** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-04-03** House concurred in Governor's recommendation (99-Y 0-N)
- **2019-04-03** Governor's recommendation adopted
- **2019-04-03** Reenrolled
- **2019-04-03** Reenrolled bill text (HB2477ER2)
- **2019-04-03** Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- **2019-04-03** Signed by President as reenrolled
- **2019-04-03** Enacted, Chapter 833 (effective 7/1/19) `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3b86f80a-66f9-4f07-9764-c78608c43b63`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).