All Roll Calls
Yes: 70 • No: 67
VirginiaHB27552025 Regular SessionHouse
Underground transmission lines; qualifying projects.
Sponsored By: JJ Singh (Democratic)
Failed
Summary
Pilot program for underground transmission lines; qualifying projects. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission to, in reviewing any application submitted by a public utility for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction of an electrical transmission line of 500 kilovolts filed between January 2025 and July 2032, approve up to two applications for qualifying projects to be constructed in whole or in part underground as part of the pilot program for underground transmission lines and to provide an expedited review of any such application. The bill removes certain provisions related to the existing pilot program. Under the bill, a project shall be qualified if an engineering analysis demonstrates that it is technically feasible, if the applicant provides an overall cost of the project and its impact on electric service rates, and if the governing body of each locality in which a portion of the proposed line will be placed underground indicates support for the transmission line to be placed underground. The bill permits the Commission to deny an application for a project that otherwise meets the criteria to qualify, provided that the Commission shares its rationale for doing so. Additionally, rather than assigning certain costs to be recovered by Virginia jurisdictional customers, the bill requires that such costs be allocated by the Commission in a manner that is just and reasonable for customers.
Commerce and Labor
Personalized for You
How does this bill affect your finances?
Personalize government policy and PRIA will tell you what this bill means for your household, plus every other piece of legislation we track. PRIA reads each provision against your financial profile to show you exactly what matters to your wallet.
Bill Overview
No Economic Impacts Identified for this Bill
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
JJ Singh
Democratic • House
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 2/17/2025
Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor
Yes: 6 • No: 8
House vote • 2/4/2025
Read third time and passed House
Yes: 49 • No: 48
House vote • 1/30/2025
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute
Yes: 3 • No: 2 • Other: 1
House vote • 1/30/2025
Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute
Yes: 12 • No: 9
Actions Timeline
Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (HB2755)
2/17/2025HouseFailed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (6-Y 8-N)
2/17/2025SenateReferred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2/5/2025SenateConstitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
2/5/2025SenateRead third time and passed House (49-Y 48-N)
2/4/2025HouseEngrossed by House - committee substitute
2/3/2025HouseLabor and Commerce Substitute agreed to
2/3/2025HouseRead second time
2/3/2025HouseRead first time
2/2/2025HouseCommittee substitute printed 25106431D-H1
1/31/2025HouseSubcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (3-Y 2-N)
1/30/2025HouseReported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (12-Y 9-N)
1/30/2025HouseAssigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #4
1/29/2025HouseFiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (HB2755)
1/28/2025HouseAssigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3
1/24/2025HouseReferred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
1/17/2025HousePresented and ordered printed 25105325D
1/17/2025House
Bill Text
Substitute
1/31/2025
Substitute
1/30/2025
Introduced
1/17/2025
Related Bills
HR671, Commending JR's Auto Care.
Commending JR's Auto Care.
SB941, Robbery; use of air or gas operated weapon, etc., penalty.
Robbery; air or gas operated weapon, etc.; penalty. Expands the crime of Class 3 felony robbery to include robbery committed by any person by using or displaying any air or gas operated weapon or any object similar in appearance to a firearm, whether capable of being fired or not.
HB1746, Public safety officer; definition.
Public safety officer; definition. Adds dispatchers and animal control officers to the definition of a public safety officer for purposes of possible selection by the Governor for the Commonwealth Public Safety Medal of Valor, presented for performance above and beyond the call of duty involving extraordinary valor in the face of grave danger, at great personal risk. However, the bill specifies that dispatchers and animal control officers are not included in the definition of public safety officer for the purpose of an injury where weather constitutes a particular risk of a public safety officer's employment to be compensable under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act.
HB1600, Budget Bill.
Budget Bill. Amends items of and adds items to Chapter 2 of the Acts of Assembly of 2024, Special Session I.
SB1449, Data centers; site assessment for high energy use facility.
Siting of data centers; site assessment; high energy use facility. Provides that prior to any approval of a rezoning application, special exception application, or special use permit for the siting of a new high energy use facility (HEUF), as defined in the bill, a locality shall require that an applicant perform and submit a site assessment to examine the sound profile of the HEUF on residential units and schools located within 500 feet of the HEUF property boundary. The bill also allows a locality to require that a site assessment examine the effect of the proposed facility on (i) ground and surface water resources, (ii) agricultural resources, (iii) parks, (iv) registered historic sites, and (v) forestland on the HEUF site or immediately contiguous land. The provisions of the bill shall not apply to a site with an existing legislative or administrative approval where an applicant is seeking an expansion or modification of an already existing or approved facility and such expansion does not exceed an additional 100 megawatts or more of electrical power. Finally, the bill provides that its provisions shall not be construed to prohibit, limit, or otherwise supersede existing local zoning authority. This bill is identical to HB 1601.
HB1609, Essential health benefits benchmark plan; Commission to consider coverage for infertility treatment.
Health insurance; coverage for fertility services; essential health benefits benchmark plan. Requires the Health Insurance Reform Commission to consider coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility and for standard fertility preservation procedures in its 2025 review of the essential health benefits benchmark plan.