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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 915

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Relating to: prohibiting sales or leases of municipal water or sewer utilities to investor-owned utilities.

Municipality Municipality — Annexation Public utility Sanitation and sewerage management Waterworks Weather

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill prohibits a town, village, or city from selling or leasing to an

investor-owned public utility any plant or portion of a plant used to provide water

or sewer service.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Barnes (D) , Berceau (D) , Brostoff (D) , Genrich (D) , Goyke (D) , Hebl (D) , Johnson (D) , Kessler (D) , Mason (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Sargent (D) , Sinicki (D) , Stuck (D) , Young (D)

7 cosponsors

C. Larson (D) , Carpenter (D) , Harris Dodd (D) , Lassa (D) , Risser (D) , Shankland (D) , Wirch (D)

Votes

Suspending the rules (to take a vote immediately) needs a two-thirds majority — a higher bar than passing the bill, which needs a simple majority. That's why a suspension motion can show more Ayes than the passage vote that follows it. Glossary

Assembly: Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Energy and Utilities and take up, Ayes 33, Noes 61

Failed 33–61 Feb 18, 2016 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Feb 15, 2016 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Stuck, Brostoff, Mason, Sargent, Young, Barnes, Genrich, Pope, Berceau, Kessler, Sinicki, Johnson, Ohnstad, Goyke and Hebl; cosponsored by Senators C. Larson, Carpenter, Risser, Wirch, Harris Dodd and Lassa

  2. Feb 15, 2016 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Energy and Utilities

  3. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Representative Shankland added as a coauthor

  4. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Energy and Utilities and take up, Ayes 33, Noes 61

  5. Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1