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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 1342: Electric utilities; energy efficiency upgrades, report.

Vetoed Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Vetoed

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 1342 is a bill introduced in the Virginia Senate on January 13, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Electric utilities; energy efficiency upgrades, report. Primary sponsor: Lamont Bagby (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (April 2, 2025): Senate sustained Governor's veto.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Phase I and Phase II Utilities; energy efficiency upgrades; low-income residents; report. States that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to reduce, wherever feasible and cost-effective, heating-related costs of living for low-income residents. The bill requires Dominion Energy Virginia and Appalachian Power to make best, reasonable efforts to provide by December 31, 2030, prescriptive efficiency measures, as defined in the bill, and related efficiency improvements to at least 30 percent of the qualifying households, as defined in the bill, identified by such utilities, provided that the State Corporation Commission determines that such upgrades are in the public interest. The bill requires such utilities to report to the Commission its activities, plans, and filings regarding the bill's provisions no later than January 1, 2027, annually thereafter, and in any recurring filing that the Commission deems appropriate. This bill is identical to HB 2744.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Lamont BagbyPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate14

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Senate sustained Governor's veto
  2. Passed by for the day
  3. Vetoed by Governor
  4. Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
  5. Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 5, 2025
  6. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1342)
  7. Signed by President
  8. Signed by Speaker
  9. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1342ER)
  10. Enrolled
  11. Passed House (70-Y 27-N)
  12. Read third time

Showing 12 most recent of 31 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source