Labor and Commerce

Thursday, March 5, 2026·37m·▶ Watch / Listen

The Virginia Senate Labor and Commerce Committee advanced all eleven bills on its agenda, reporting ten with amendments or substitutes and carrying one over to the 2027 session, with the most contested votes occurring on energy storage (SB448, 15-6) and underground electric line undergrounding (SB650, 14-7).

Key Actions

·SB246 – Virginia Nonstock Corporation ActNo Vote

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Notable Quotes

“There was a substitute, Madam Chair, which added two enactment clauses that require a stakeholder work group and delaying the effective date of the first enactment to January 1, 2027. There are a couple other differences, such as a clarification about rental units with ratio billing systems and requiring notice of installation to electric service providers.”
Chair Sullivan — Chair Sullivan was describing the substitute adopted in subcommittee for SB250, the small portable solar generation devices bill, which limits what localities, landlords, and utilities can restrict regarding these devices.

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Votes

Report SB246 with amendmentsNo Vote

Report SB479 with amendmentsNo Vote

Report SB734No Vote

Continue SB339 to the 2027 sessionNo Vote

Report SB249 with substituteNo Vote

Report SB250 with substituteNo Vote

Report SB333 with substituteNo Vote

Report SB371 with substituteNo Vote

Report SB448 substituteNo Vote

Report SB650 with substituteNo Vote

Report SB823 with substituteNo Vote

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TranscriptPreview

I will call to order the labor and Commerce Committee. Please be seated. We will, in just one second, ask the clerk to open the roll. And the clerk shall open the row so we can mark our attendance. And we have a quorum. Thank you. We have subcommittee reports. We're going to begin now in just one moment when we are all ready to start. Okay, we're going to go with subcommittee number one, Chair Maldonado. Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam chair. We have three bills on this short docket. The first is SB246, Patron by Senator Cervol. There were some amendments that are mostly technical in nature, but also makes a clarification about community association declarations and condemnations, condominium instruments more generally. The bill provides for numerous revisions of the Virginia Nonstop Corporation Act. Among other revisions, the bill authorizes certain actions to derive from its bylaws in addition to its articles of incorporation. And two, it makes changes to the process of amending articles of incorporation and bylaws. Three, it authorizes inclusion of an exclusive forum provision in the bylaws. 4 permits transfer and membership interest. 5. 5 authorizes members to bring derivative proceedings. 6 permits a…

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