HB 893 Virginia House of Delegates · 2026 Regular Session

Electric utility integrated resource planning; energy storage resources.

Summary

Electric utility integrated resource planning; energy storage resources. Requires Dominion Energy, as part of its integrated resource plan, to assess the use of energy storage resources through appropriate modeling that accounts for economic charge and discharge times and represents various economic scenarios. The bill also requires systematic evaluation of and permits proposing investments in energy storage resources in the integrated resource plan.

Issues: ✓ Energy

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2026

Committee Review

Mar 2026

House of Delegates Passage

Mar 2026

Senate Passage

Mar 2026

Signed into Law

Apr 2026

Introduced Jan 13, 2026 Signed Apr 13, 2026

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What changed between versions

Subcommittee #3 Subcommittee Substitute → Enrolled · 2 edits · Mar 12, 2026

MINOR

This bill was finalized into law (Enrolled) with minor formatting adjustments, such as adding standard legislative headers and correcting spacing in section references. The core policy content regarding integrated resource planning, energy storage, and facility retirement studies remains substantively unchanged from the previous version.

TECHNICAL

Added standard 'Enrolled' legislative headers and corrected spacing in section citations (e.g., changing '§ 56-598' to '§ 56-598').

Removed internal committee tracking numbers and draft labels (e.g., 'HOUSE SUBSTITUTE', 'AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE').

Floor votes · Senate Mar 4, 2026 · House of Delegates Feb 11, 2026

How they voted

38–0

Passed · 1 other

Total votes 39

Mar 4, 2026

D Democratic20

20 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican19

18 Yea 1

94% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

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Key actions

Committee

Apr 13, 2026

Signed into law

Approved by Governor-Chapter 693 (effective 7/1/2026)

executive

Mar 12, 2026

Upper · Passed

Signed by President

upper

Mar 12, 2026

Lower · Passed

Signed by Speaker

lower

Mar 12, 2026

Lower · Passed

Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB893ER)

lower

Mar 5, 2026

Upper · Passed

Passed Senate (20-Y 19-N 0-A)

upper

Mar 4, 2026

Upper · Passed

Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)

upper

Mar 2, 2026

Upper · Passed

Reported from Commerce and Labor (8-Y 5-N)

upper

Feb 12, 2026

Committee

Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor

upper

Feb 11, 2026

Lower · Passed

Passed House (98-Y 0-N 0-A)

lower

Feb 11, 2026

Lower · Passed

Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N 0-A)

lower

Feb 5, 2026

Lower · Passed

Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (22-Y 0-N)

lower

Feb 3, 2026

Lower · Passed

House subcommittee offered

lower

Jan 22, 2026

Committee

Assigned HCL sub: Subcommittee #3

lower

Jan 13, 2026

Committee

Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors