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Panel poised to stop bill that would end utility rate freeze GENERAL ASSEMBLY Senate Bill 9 by Sen. Chap Petersen, D-Fairfax City, is scheduled to be taken up by the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee. The panel stacked with lawmakers of bom parties who are friendly to Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power is expected to kill the bill and the rest of Petersen's package, which would increase the member ship on the State Corporation Commission from three to five and create other consumer protections. Sen. Richard Saslaw of Fairfax, the senior Democrat on the committee and a major recipient of Dominion campaign contributions, said he is introducing his own bill by the end of the upcoming week, a piece UTILITIES, Pa AM BY ROBERT ZULU) Richmond Tlmes-Dlspatch A bill that would undo the controversial 2015 rate freeze that locked in hundreds of millions of dollars in "overearnings" for 'Virginia's two large utilities heads to a powerful Senate committee Monday for an encounter it is not expected to survive.

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