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type: "Bill"
title: "Electric utility integrated resource planning; energy storage resources."
description: "Electric utility integrated resource planning; energy storage resources. Requires Dominion Energy, as part of its integrated resource plan, to assess the use of energy storage resources through appropriate modeling that accounts for economic charge and discharge times and represents various economic scenarios. The bill also requires systematic evaluation of and permits proposing investments in energy storage resources in the integrated resource plan."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 893"
citation: "Virginia HB 893 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Richard C. \"Rip\" Sullivan, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2026-01-13"
last_action: "2026-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b7e247e1-b366-4f3e-a0ac-26a5671684c5"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB893"
source_hash: "8858c35adabf24c191d5e106e44713e18c8654c663d3b0045f0a365290121b50"
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 893 (2026) — Electric utility integrated resource planning; energy storage resources.
Electric utility integrated resource planning; energy storage resources. Requires Dominion Energy, as part of its integrated resource plan, to assess the use of energy storage resources through appropriate modeling that accounts for economic charge and discharge times and represents various economic scenarios. The bill also requires systematic evaluation of and permits proposing investments in energy storage resources in the integrated resource plan.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1086337.PDF)
2. **Labor and Commerce Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1132085.PDF)
3. **Subcommittee #3 Subcommittee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1116045.PDF)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1201440.PDF)
## Votes
- Passage R — **2019** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute — **220** (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — **980** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **90** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **85** (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — **960** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26103961D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-13** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-22** Assigned HCL sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-25** Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (HB893)
- **2026-02-03** House subcommittee offered
- **2026-02-03** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (9-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2026-02-05** Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-06** Committee substitute printed 26107030D-H1 `substitution`
- **2026-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-10** committee substitute agreed to `substitution`
- **2026-02-10** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2026-02-11** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-11** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2026-02-11** Passed House (98-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-02-12** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2026-02-12** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-16** Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (HB893)
- **2026-03-02** Reported from Commerce and Labor (8-Y 5-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 (20-Y 19-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-12** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB893ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Signed by President `passage`
- **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** Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (HB893)
- **2026-04-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 693 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b7e247e1-b366-4f3e-a0ac-26a5671684c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).