Assembly Bill 565
Spending by certain electric and natural gas public utilities on energy efficiency, conservation, and renewable resource programs
Topics: Energy conservation, Legislature: Finance, Joint Committee on, Public Service Commission, Public utility
Stopped in committee
It never got a , so it never came up for a vote. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.
-
Introduced, passed
Feb 14, 2012
-
Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
-
Assembly vote, not reached
-
Senate vote, not reached
-
Governor, not reached
-
Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Mar 23, 2012: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Energy and Utilities. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
Following saves it on this device. New actions show on your Following page. You can also get updates in a feed reader.
Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
Current law requires the Public Service Commission (PSC) to require investor-owned electric and natural gas public utilities to spend 1.2 percent of their annual operating revenues on certain energy efficiency, conservation, and renewable resource programs. Subject to the approval of the Joint Committee on Finance (JCF), current law allows the PSC, until January 1, 2012, to require that such utilities spend a greater percentage of their annual operating revenues on such programs.
The PSC may require a greater percentage based on its consideration of the following factors: 1) studies of the potential energy-efficiency improvements that could be made in the state; 2) the potential short-term and long-term impacts on electric and natural gas rates; 3) alternatives for mitigating such impacts; 4) the impact on the continuation and effectiveness of existing energy efficiency and renewable resource programs; 5) the impact on the reliability and adequacy of systems for the generation and transmission of electricity and the transmission of natural gas; 6) societal impacts; 7) the potential for displacing or delaying construction of electric generating plants and transmission lines; 8) economic impacts that are likely to accrue from reducing expenditures on coal, natural gas, fuel oil, and other fossil fuel imports; and 9) any other relevant factors. The PSC must submit a proposal for a greater percentage to JCF. If the cochairpersons of JCF do not notify the PSC within ten working days after submission of such a proposal that JCF has scheduled a meeting to review the proposal, the PSC may require that the utilities spend the greater percentage. If the cochairpersons of JCF do notify the PSC within ten working days after submission of such a proposal that JCF has scheduled a meeting to review the proposal, but JCF does not object to the proposal within 90 days of providing the notification to the PSC, the PSC may require that the utilities spend the greater percentage. However, if JCF objects to the proposal within such 90-day period, the PSC may not require that the utilities spend the greater percentage.
Read the full summary Show less
Effective January 1, 2012, the 2011 executive budget act repeals the provisions of current law that allow the PSC to require the utilities to spend a greater percentage on the programs. As a result, after January 1, 2012, the PSC must require the utilities to spend 1.2 percent of their annual operating revenues on the programs. This bill eliminates that repeal. Under the bill, after January 1, 2012, the PSC may, based on the factors described above and subject to JCF approval as described above, require that the utilities spend a greater percentage of their annual operating revenues on the programs.
Who's behind it
15 lawmakers are its . All 15 are Democrats.
4 more lawmakers .
See all 19 names Hide the names
Authors (15)
- Terese Berceau · Democrat, Assembly
- Fred Clark · Democrat, Assembly
- Elizabeth Coggs · Democrat, Assembly
- Gary Hebl · Democrat, Assembly
- Brett Hulsey · Democrat, Assembly
- Andy Jorgensen · Democrat, Assembly
- Cory Mason · Democrat, Assembly
- Louis Molepske Jr. · Democrat, Assembly
- Sandy Pasch · Democrat, Assembly
- Mark Pocan · Democrat, Assembly
- Janis Ringhand · Democrat, Senate
- Kelda Roys · Democrat, Senate
- Christine Sinicki · Democrat, Assembly
- Robert Turner · Democrat, Assembly
- Josh Zepnick · Democrat, Assembly
Signed on in support (4)
- Janet Bewley · Democrat, Senate
- Jim Holperin · Democrat, Senate
- Fred A. Risser · Democrat, Senate
- Lena Taylor · Democrat, Senate
What happened
-
Mar 23, 2012
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
-
Feb 21, 2012
1 more representative signed on in support.
-
Feb 14, 2012
Sent to the Assembly Committee on Energy and Utilities.
-
Feb 14, 2012
Introduced in the Assembly.
See the official record, word for word Hide the official record
- Feb 14, 2012 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Hulsey, Pocan, Zepnick, Jorgensen, Ringhand, Hebl, Molepske Jr, E. Coggs, Roys, Turner, Pasch, Berceau, Mason, Sinicki and Clark;Cosponsored by Senators Risser, Holperin and Taylor
- Feb 14, 2012 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to committee on Energy and Utilities
- Feb 21, 2012 · Assembly
Representative Bewley added as a coauthor
- Mar 23, 2012 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor