HB 242 — Public utilities; budget plan payment increases.
VA 20261 session
Public utilities; budget plan payment increases. Prohibits a public utility from, for any residential customer who is enrolled in a budget plan, increasing the amount of such customer's monthly payment more than once within any 12-month period or without notifying the customer in writing at least 60 days before such increase takes effect. The bill defines "budget plan" as a fixed billing option offered by a public utility to a customer whereby the total service for the succeeding 12-month period is estimated in advance and bills are rendered monthly on the basis of one-twelfth of the 12-month estimate. The provisions of the bill do not apply to any public utility engaged in the business of furnishing water or sewerage facilities.
Latest action: — Acts of Assembly Chapter
Sponsors (14)
- Joshua G. Cole (D, VA) — sponsor
- Nadarius E. Clark (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Jackie H. Glass (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Jessica L. Anderson (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Stacey Annie Carroll (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Nicole Cole (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Elizabeth R. Guzman (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Rozia A. Henson, Jr. (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Amy J. Laufer (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Michelle Lopes Maldonado (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Adele Y. McClure (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Sam Rasoul (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Charlie Schmidt (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Saddam Azlan Salim (D, VA) — cosponsor
Action timeline (36)
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Who matters on this bill
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joshua G. Cole (D, state_lower VA) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Adele Y. McClure (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Amy J. Laufer (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Charlie Schmidt (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Elizabeth R. Guzman (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Jackie H. Glass (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Jessica L. Anderson (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 8 | Michelle Lopes Maldonado (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 9 | Nadarius E. Clark (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 10 | Nicole Cole (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 11 | Rozia A. Henson, Jr. (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 12 | Saddam Azlan Salim (D, state_upper VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 13 | Sam Rasoul (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 14 | Stacey Annie Carroll (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Stance (positions taken)
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no