Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 3-N)
Nonhazardous solid waste fees. Increasesthe annual fees for nonhazardous solid waste management facilitiesand indexes the fees annually based on the change in the ConsumerPrice Index.
County manager plan of government; independent policing auditor. Allows the governing body of any county with the county manager plan of government (Arlington County) to appoint an independent policing auditor. The independent policing auditor shall support any law-enforcement civilian oversight body created by the governing body and shall have all the powers of the law-enforcement civilian oversight body, to the extent that such powers are delegated to the independent policing auditor by the oversight body. The independent policing auditor shall serve at the pleasure of the governing body.
Witness summons in a criminal matter; requirements. Requires the attorney for the Commonwealth to file with the clerkof the court a copy of any witness subpoena and to provide a copyof such subpoena to any defendant or attorney for the defendant inthe pending criminal matter.
Electric utilities; energy efficiency programs. Makes several changes to energy efficiency standards under which each investor-owned incumbent electric utility is required to achieve incremental annual energy efficiency savings. The bill requires energy efficiency savings that start in 2022 at 0.5 percent for Appalachian Power and 1.25 percent for Dominion Energy Virginia of the average annual energy retail sales by that utility in 2019 and increases those savings annually until 2030 when the bill requires energy efficiency savings of 11 percent for Appalachian Power and 15 percent for Dominion Energy Virginia of the average annual energy retail sales by that utility in 2019. The bill requires that such savings percentages be net of (i) freerider savings from customers who would have implemented a measure in absence of utility-delivered energy efficiency programs and (ii) spillover savings from customers who implement an efficiency measure not directly targeted by utility-delivered energy efficiency program. The bill prohibits an electric utility from including in its efficiency programs, or the State Corporation Commission from requiring, budget limits on energy efficiency programs that the Commission reasonably determines substantially limit that electric utility's ability to acquire all feasible cost-effective energy savings available through such programs. The bill requires the Commission to biennially review the feasibility of the energy efficiency program savings requirements, taking into account the level of savings achieved by utilities in other states and required by other states, and any other factors the Commission deems appropriate to consider, and report to the Chairs of the House Committee on Labor and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor and the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources and the Secretary of Commerce and Trade on such feasibility by October 1, 2023, and biennially thereafter. The bill requires the Commission to establish, from 2024 through 2026 and for every three-year period thereafter, incremental low-income, elderly, disabled, and veteran energy efficiency savings targets in each year, to be achieved through energy efficiency programs designed to benefit low-income, elderly, disabled, or veteran customers. Each year's savings targets for such programs is required to be at least 1.25 percent of the average annual energy retail sales by that utility to those customer classes. The bill authorizes the Commission to provide for performance incentives and penalties for these low-income, elderly, disabled, and veteran savings targets, as deemed appropriate, and authorizes the savings from the low-income energy efficiency programs to count toward the overall energy efficiency savings requirements.
Celebrating the life of Eunice M. Wilder.
Commending Harry Wason.
Voter registration; presumption of domicile;members of a uniformed service and others. Provides that a memberof a uniformed service who is on active duty with permanent ordersstationing him in the Commonwealth shall be presumed to have establisheddomicile for purposes of satisfying the residency requirements forvoter registration, if he has also established physical presenceand a place of abode in the Commonwealth, unless he expressly statesotherwise. The bill provides for the same presumption for his spouseand any dependent residing with him. The bill defines "uniformedservice," the same way the term is defined in the Uniform Militaryand Overseas Voter Act, as the (i) active and reserve componentsof the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard of theUnited States; (ii) Merchant Marine, commissioned corps of the PublicHealth Service, or commissioned corps of the National Oceanic andAtmospheric Administration of the United States; or (iii) VirginiaNational Guard.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable FloraLonette Davis Crittenden.
Celebrating the life of the Reverend PatrickJoseph White.
Commending Bob Brown.
Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455
