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Introduced in House	Passed House	Introduced in Senate	Passed Senate	Became Law
01/07/2020			01/16/2020

Resilience hub pilot program; established.

Directs the Department of Emergency Management to establish a two-year resilience hub pilot program to assist vulnerable communities during emergency situations. The bill defines a "resilience hub" as a simple combination of solar panels and batteries that ensures continuous power to a publicly accessible building when severe weather events or other grid disruptions cause an electrical outage.

Date	Version	PDF	TXT
01/07/2020	House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102979D	Open

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2020 SESSION

20102979D
HOUSE BILL NO. 959 Offered January 8, 2020 Prefiled January 7, 2020 A BILL to establish a resilience hub pilot program to assist vulnerable communities during emergency situations. ---------- Patrons-- Bourne, Askew and Carroll Foy ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. � 1. The Department of Emergency Management shall initiate a two-year pilot program designed to establish up to three resilience hubs per year in targeted, vulnerable communities, including those with high percentages of low-income or disabled persons, the elderly, and other persons for whom evacuation during an emergency situation is difficult and who may have few alternatives. For purposes of this act, a "resilience hub" is a simple combination of solar panels and batteries that ensures continuous power to a publicly accessible building when severe weather events or other grid disruptions cause an electrical outage.

Name	From	Type
Jeffrey M. Bourne	D-Richmond	Sponsor
Jennifer D. Carroll Foy	D-Richmond	Cosponsor
Alex Q. Askew	D-Richmond	Cosponsor

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Date	Branch	Action
01/16/2020	House	House: Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3
01/15/2020	House	House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
01/07/2020	House	House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102979D
01/07/2020	House	House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice

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Directs the Department of Emergency Management to establish a two-year resilience hub pilot program to assist vulnerable communities during emergency situations. The bill defines a "resilience hub" as a simple combination of solar panels and batteries that ensures continuous power to a publicly accessible building when severe weather events or other grid disruptions cause an electrical outage.
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Emergency Management
The Department of Emergency Management shall initiate a two-year pilot program designed to establish up to three resilience hubs per year in targeted, vulnerable communities, including those with high percentages of low-income or disabled persons, the elderly, and other persons for whom evacuation during an emergency situation is difficult and who may have few alternatives

Management
The Department of Emergency Management shall initiate a two-year pilot program designed to establish up to three resilience hubs per year in targeted, vulnerable communities, including those with high percentages of low-income or disabled persons, the elderly, and other persons for whom evacuation during an emergency situation is difficult and who may have few alternatives

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