SR608 - Commending Arthur Ellsworth Dick Howard.

9 Co-Sponsors

SR621 - Celebrating the life of Stewart Hamilton Gamage.

7 Co-Sponsors

SR620 - Celebrating the life of Francis Xavier O'Leary.

4 Co-Sponsors

SB6009 - General appropriation act; designation of add'tl surplus, modifications to certain programs, report.

3 Co-Sponsors

General appropriation act; designation of additional surplus; delayed effective date for modifications to certain waiver programs; JLARC review. Designates certain additional surplus revenues in the amount of $45 million to offset the impact of financial aid waivers and stipends for the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program and related programs. The bill delays until July 1, 2025, the effective date of language in the appropriation act imposing additional requirements on financial aid waivers and stipends for such programs. The bill also directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to conduct a review of the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program to assess its long-term sustainability and report its findings and recommendations to the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations and the House Committee on Appropriations by September 1, 2024.

SR626 - Commending the Honorable Robert F. McDonnell.

23 Co-Sponsors

SB6012 - Va. Military Survivors & Dependents Ed. Program & related programs; modifications, surplus revenues.

30 Co-Sponsors

General appropriation act; designation of additional surplus; repeal of modifications to certain waiver programs. Designates certain additional surplus revenues in the amount of $90 million to offset the impact of financial aid waivers and stipends for the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program and related programs and removes language in the appropriation act that imposes additional requirements for such programs.

SB191 - Electric utilities; data center demand, allocation of costs among customer classes.

4 Co-Sponsors

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.

SB346 - Net energy metering; solar interconnection, cost recovery.

3 Co-Sponsors

Net energy metering; solar interconnection; cost recovery. Provides that an electric distribution company shall pay $1 per kilowatt per day for the costs of lost electricity production for any and all delays beyond the regulatory notice period required by State Corporation Commission related to net energy metering. The bill requires that, for the purposes of net energy metering, an eligible customer-generator shall bear all reasonable costs of equipment required at the eligible customer-generator's side of the meter for the interconnection to the supplier's electric distribution system, including reasonable and prudent costs of additional controls, tests, or liability insurance. Additionally, the bill allows for cost recovery by Phase I and Phase II Utilities for electric distribution grid transformation projects that support the interconnection of generating facilities using energy derived from sunlight that are owned or contracted by eligible customer-generators, subject to the Commission finding those costs to be reasonable and prudent in accordance with existing law.

SB192 - Sales and use tax exemption; data centers.

2 Co-Sponsors

Sales and use tax exemption; data centers. Requires data center operators to meet certain energy efficiency standards in order to be eligible for the sales and use tax exemption for data center purchases. Under the bill, a data center operator shall be eligible for the exemption only if such operator demonstrates that (i) its facilities either (a) have a power usage effectiveness score of no greater than 1.2 or (b) for data centers co-located in buildings with other commercial uses, achieve an energy efficiency level of no less than the most efficient 15 percent of similar buildings constructed in the previous five years and (ii) it will procure carbon-free renewable energy and associated renewable energy certificates from facilities equal to 90 percent of its electricity requirements or that its electricity will be otherwise derived from non-carbon-emitting, renewable sources. Sales and use tax exemption; data centers. Requires data center operators to meet certain energy efficiency standards in order to be eligible for the sales and use tax exemption for data center purchases. Under the bill, a data center operator shall be eligible for the exemption only if such operator demonstrates that (i) its facilities either (a) have a power usage effectiveness score of no greater than 1.2 or (b) for data centers co-located in buildings with other commercial uses, achieve an energy efficiency level of no less than the most efficient 15 percent of similar buildings constructed in the previous five years and (ii) it will procure carbon-free renewable energy and associated renewable energy certificates from facilities equal to 90 percent of its electricity requirements or that its electricity will be otherwise derived from non-carbon-emitting, renewable sources.

SJR1 - Constitutional amendment; fundamental right to reproductive freedom (first reference).

16 Co-Sponsors

Constitutional amendment (first reference); fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that the right to make and effectuate one's own decisions about all matters related to one's pregnancy cannot be denied, burdened, or otherwise infringed upon by the Commonwealth, unless justified by a compelling state interest and achieved by the least restrictive means. The amendment prohibits the Commonwealth from penalizing, prosecuting, or otherwise taking adverse action against an individual for exercising the individual's right to reproductive freedom or for aiding another individual in the exercise of such right, unless justified by a compelling state interest.