Virginia 2024 Regular Session Status: In Committee

SB 191 — Electric utilities; data center demand, allocation of costs among customer classes.

Last action — Continued to 2025 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. 2
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed Senate
  4. 4
    Passed House of Delegates
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill died with 2024 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there are no live odds of enactment. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

Summary

Electric utilities; data center demand; allocationof costs among customer classes. Directs the State CorporationCommission to ensure that any plan, petition, or proposal from autility to meet demand associated with data centers considers generation,transmission, and distribution system costs so as to meet such demandat the lowest aggregate reasonable cost. The bill also directs theCommission to initiate a proceeding, on or before December 31, 2024,(i) to determine if the current allocation of costs among customersand the different classifications of customers of electric utilitiesresults in customers that are data centers receiving unreasonablesubsidies from other customers or classifications of customers and (ii) if it determines unreasonable subsidies exist, to amend suchallocation of costs.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Continued to 2025 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)

  2. Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered

  3. Rereferred to Commerce and Labor

  4. Rereferred from Rules (15-Y 0-N)

  5. Impact statement from SCC (SB191)

  6. Referred to Committee on Rules

  7. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104712D

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 3 co-sponsors · 144 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (3)

Not signed on (144)

144 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

Continued to 2025 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)

Passed 15 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 15000
Total 15000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (15)
Member Party Vote
Aaron R. Rouse — Yea
Bill DeSteph — Yea
Bryce E. Reeves — Yea
David W. Marsden — Yea
Ebbin, Adam P. — Yea
Jeremy S. McPike — Yea
L. Louise Lucas — Yea
Lamont Bagby — Yea
Mamie E. Locke — Yea
Mark D. Obenshain — Yea
Mark J. Peake — Yea
R. Creigh Deeds — Yea
Ryan T. McDougle — Yea
Scott A. Surovell — Yea
William M. Stanley, Jr. — Yea

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Rereferred from Rules (15-Y 0-N)

Passed 15 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 15000
Total 15000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (15)
Member Party Vote
Aaron R. Rouse — Yea
Barbara A. Favola — Yea
David W. Marsden — Yea
Ebbin, Adam P. — Yea
Hashmi, Ghazala F. — Yea
Jennifer B. Boysko — Yea
Jeremy S. McPike — Yea
L. Louise Lucas — Yea
Mamie E. Locke — Yea
Mark J. Peake — Yea
R. Creigh Deeds — Yea
Richard H. Stuart — Yea
Ryan T. McDougle — Yea
Scott A. Surovell — Yea
Todd E. Pillion — Yea

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 191 do?
Electric utilities; data center demand; allocationof costs among customer classes. Directs the State CorporationCommission to ensure that any plan, petition, or proposal from autility to meet demand associated with data centers considers generation,transmission, and distribution system costs so as to meet such demandat the lowest aggregate reasonable cost. The bill also directs theCommission to initiate a proceeding, on or before December 31, 2024,(i) to determine if the current allocation of costs among customersand the different classifications of customers of electric utilitiesresults in customers that are data centers receiving unreasonablesubsidies from other customers or classifications of customers and (ii) if it determines unreasonable subsidies exist, to amend suchallocation of costs.
Who sponsors SB 191?
SB 191 is sponsored by Barbara A. Favola, Saddam Azlan Salim, Adam P. Ebbin, and Subramanyam, Suhas.
What is the current status of SB 191?
This bill died with 2024 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
Where can I track SB 191?
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