Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
SB 191: Electric utilities; data center demand, allocation of costs among customer classes.
In committee Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
Last official action: ·Record last updated:
Plain-language summary
SB 191 is a bill introduced in the Virginia Senate on January 8, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Electric utilities; data center demand, allocation of costs among customer classes. Primary sponsor: Suhas Subramanyam. It lists 3 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (November 18, 2024): Left in Commerce and Labor.
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.
Electric utilities; data center demand; allocation of costs among customer classes. Directs the State Corporation Commission to ensure that any plan, petition, or proposal from a utility to meet demand associated with data centers considers generation, transmission, and distribution system costs so as to meet such demand at the lowest aggregate reasonable cost. The bill also directs the Commission to initiate a proceeding, on or before December 31, 2024, (i) to determine if the current allocation of costs among customers and the different classifications of customers of electric utilities results in customers that are data centers receiving unreasonable subsidies from other customers or classifications of customers and (ii) if it determines unreasonable subsidies exist, to amend such allocation of costs.
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suhas Subramanyam | Primary sponsor | Not applicable (committee) | — | — |
| Adam P. Ebbin | Co-sponsor | Not applicable (committee) | — | — |
| Barbara Favola | Co-sponsor | Democratic | Senate | 40 |
| Saddam Salim | Co-sponsor | Democratic | Senate | 37 |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Left in Commerce and Labor
- Continued to 2025 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Rereferred to Commerce and Labor
- Rereferred from Rules (15-Y 0-N)
- Impact statement from SCC (SB191)
- Referred to Committee on Rules
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104712D