Loading
Loading
Your feedback directly shapes Sporos.
Sign in to track your feedback history
Clean energy and community flood preparedness; market-based trading program. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality and the State Air Pollution Control Board to establish and maintain a market-based trading program consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative program, as defined in existing law, to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generating units in the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to SB 802.
Introduced
Jan 12, 2026
Last Action
Mar 10, 2026
Session
VA 2026
Sponsors
1 primary · 13 co
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026
Signed by Speaker
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB397)
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB397ER)
Enrolled
Signed by President
Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N 0-A)
Passed by for the day
Read third time
Rules suspended
Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 6-N)
Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Read third time and passed House (63-Y 35-N 0-A)
Engrossed by House - committee substitute
committee substitute agreed to
Read second time
Read first time
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB397)
Committee substitute printed 26105867D-H1
Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (15-Y 7-N)
House subcommittee offered
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 3-N)
Assigned HACNR sub: Natural Resources
Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26104232D
Get a plain-English explanation of what this bill does, who it affects, and why it matters.
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
Charniele L. Herring
Bonita G. Anthony
Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker
Betsy B. Carr
Nadarius E. Clark
Margaret A. Franklin
Elizabeth R. Guzman
Patrick A. Hope
Marcia S. "Cia" Price
David W. Marsden
Saddam Azlan Salim