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Senate Committee on Utilities

  • Committee Assistant: Susanne Murphy 785-296-7678
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    • Meeting Day: Daily Time: 1:30 pm Location: 548-S

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    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Bills In Committee
    SB46 - Requiring existing wind energy conversion systems to install light-mitigating technology systems.
    SB78 - Requiring the state corporation commission to review the regional rate competitiveness of an electric utility's rates in electric utility rate proceedings.
    SB88 - Providing for the statewide election of commissioners of the state corporation commission, establishing the utilities regulation division in the office of the attorney general, requiring such division to represent and protect the collective interests of utility customers in utility rate-related proceedings and exempting the state corporation commission from the open meetings act.
    SB154 - Limiting the amount of fees, taxes and other charges on a utility bill assessed by a board of public utilities.
    SB166 - Requiring public disclosure of an application for a transmission line siting permit under the jurisdiction of the state corporation commission.
    SB214 - Prohibiting public utilities from recovering any dues, donations or contributions to any charitable or social organization or entity through customer rates.
    SB278 - Requiring public utilities to report information regarding customer assistance programs, account delinquencies and disconnections.
    SB422 - Increasing the capacity limitation for the total amount of facilities subject to net metering that may operate within the service territory of investor-owned electric utilities, requiring facilities to be appropriately sized based on the customer's average load and establishing requirements for exporting power to a utility from a facility subject to net metering.
    SB443 - Requiring landowners whose land is taken by eminent domain for electric transmission lines to be compensated at not less than fair market value multiplied by 150%.
    SB456 - Establishing a rebuttable presumption against retirement of fossil fuel-fired electric generating units, requiring the state corporation commission to report on such retirements and extending the timelines for the commission to make a determination regarding rate-making treatment for generating or transmission facilities.
    SB517 - Prohibiting the closure of an electric generation facility without a reliable and readily dispatchable replacement and notification of such closure.
    HB2806 - Authorizing certain telecommunications and video service providers to operate in county public right-of-way and limiting the fees and costs that a county may impose upon such providers for such activities.
    Sponsored Bills
    SB46 - Requiring existing wind energy conversion systems to install light-mitigating technology systems.
    SB49 - Requiring installation of light-mitigating technology systems on new and existing wind energy conversion systems subject to certain conditions.
    SB68 - Providing incumbent electric transmission owners a right of first refusal for the construction of certain electric transmission lines.
    SB78 - Requiring the state corporation commission to review the regional rate competitiveness of an electric utility's rates in electric utility rate proceedings.
    SB88 - Providing for the statewide election of commissioners of the state corporation commission, establishing the utilities regulation division in the office of the attorney general, requiring such division to represent and protect the collective interests of utility customers in utility rate-related proceedings and exempting the state corporation commission from the open meetings act.
    SB144 - Exempting satellite service and video programming services accessed over the internet from the video competition act.
    SB166 - Requiring public disclosure of an application for a transmission line siting permit under the jurisdiction of the state corporation commission.
    SB422 - Increasing the capacity limitation for the total amount of facilities subject to net metering that may operate within the service territory of investor-owned electric utilities, requiring facilities to be appropriately sized based on the customer's average load and establishing requirements for exporting power to a utility from a facility subject to net metering.
    SB455 - Prohibiting public utilities from exercising eminent domain for the siting or placement of solar generation facilities.
    SB456 - Establishing a rebuttable presumption against retirement of fossil fuel-fired electric generating units, requiring the state corporation commission to report on such retirements and extending the timelines for the commission to make a determination regarding rate-making treatment for generating or transmission facilities.
    SB457 - Prohibiting public utilities from exercising eminent domain for the siting or placement of solar facilities.
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