HB2438
Solar facilities; local regulation, special exceptions.
Status:
Killed
Session:
2025 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Local regulation of solar facilities; special exceptions.
Provides that a ground-mounted solar energy generation facility to be located on property zoned agricultural, commercial, industrial, or institutional shall be permitted pursuant to various criteria to be included in a local ordinance, such as specifications for setbacks, fencing, solar panel height, visual impacts, and grading, and a decommissioning plan ... (More) for solar energy equipment and facilities, unless otherwise permitted by right. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/08/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102097D
- 01/08/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
- 01/21/2025 - House: Referred from Labor and Commerce and referred to Counties, Cities and Towns (Voice Vote)
- 01/21/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
- 01/22/2025 - House: Assigned CCT sub: Subcommittee #2
- 01/22/2025 - House: Placed on Counties, Cities and Towns Agenda
- 01/23/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
- 01/23/2025 - House: Placed on Counties, Cities and Towns Agenda
- 01/24/2025 - House: Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (12-Y 8-N)
- 01/27/2025 - House: Floor substitute printed 25106048D-H1 (Mundon King)
- 01/28/2025 - House: Read first time
- 01/29/2025 - House: Read second time
- 01/29/2025 - House: Delegate Mundon King Substitute agreed to
- 01/29/2025 - House: Engrossed by House - floor substitute
- 01/30/2025 - House: Read third time and passed House (48-Y 46-N) Close Floor Vote
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (7-Y 7-N 1-A)
