Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
SB 591: Electric utilities; customer energy choice, notice required for customer return to service.
In committee Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
Last official action: ·Record last updated:
Plain-language summary
SB 591 is a bill introduced in the Virginia Senate on January 10, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Electric utilities; customer energy choice, notice required for customer return to service. Primary sponsor: Jeremy McPike (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (November 18, 2024): Left in Commerce and Labor.
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Official summary
Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.
Electric utilities; customer energy choice; notice required for customer return to service. Removes certain restrictions on the ability of individual retail customers of electric energy within the Commonwealth, regardless of customer class, to purchase electric energy provided 100 percent from renewable energy from any supplier of electric energy licensed to sell retail electric energy within the Commonwealth. The bill also decreases the required written notice period from five years to six months for certain electric energy customers to return to service by Dominion Energy Virginia after purchasing electric energy from other suppliers.
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremy McPike | Primary sponsor | Democratic | Senate | 29 |
“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)
- Impact statement from SCC (SB591)
- Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101613D