Panel sends prevailing-wage bill for clean-energy projects to appropriations; supporters cite IRA alignment
HB 2,356, requiring prevailing wages and apprenticeship hours on public-service clean-energy projects, was reported and referred to sub-appropriations after supporters said it aligns Virginia projects with federal Inflation Reduction Act incentives.
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Delegate Mundane King presented HB 2,356, which would require public service companies and third-party developers working on certain public clean-energy projects to pay prevailing wages and meet apprenticeship-hour requirements (including at least 15% of total hours performed by registered apprentices on RPS projects). The bill’s substitute was adopted in committee and, after testimony from unions and environmental groups supporting alignment with federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) requirements, the subcommittee voted 5–2 to report the bill and refer it to appropriations.
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