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Panel sends prevailing-wage bill for clean-energy projects to appropriations; supporters cite IRA alignment

2152896 · January 23, 2025
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Summary

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.

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…

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