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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 588

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Relating to: allowing persons to charge fees for the use of electric vehicle charging stations and the installation and operation of electric vehicle charging stations by the Department of Transportation or a political subdivision.

Electricity Motor vehicle Municipality Public utility Transportation department of — Vehicles

  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 allows a person to charge a fee to users who park an electric vehicle

near the person's charging station. Under the bill, the fee charged for parking near

the charging station must be a flat fee or be based on the amount of time the user is

parked near or connected to the station or on the amount of electricity used. The bill

also prohibits electric utilities and electric cooperatives from restricting customers

from charging a fee to users who park near or connect to the customers' charging

stations. Additionally, the bill specifies that a person who owns, operates, manages,

leases, or controls a charging station is not a public utility if the person does not

otherwise provide electricity to others for a fee.

The bill also prohibits a political subdivision from owning, operating,

managing, leasing, or controlling a charging facility that is available to the public

unless authorized by the governing body of the political subdivision and prohibits the

Department of Transportation from authorizing the installation or operation of a

charging facility that is available to the public or located at a wayside unless the

department submits to the Joint Committee on Finance a request for authorization

to install or operate the charging facility and the Joint Committee on Finance

approves the request.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Born (R) , Brandtjen (R) , Doyle (D) , Duchow (R) , Edming (R) , Gundrum (R) , Knodl (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Loudenbeck (R) , Moses (R) , Mursau (R) , Neylon (R) , Oldenburg (R) , Petryk (R) , Spiros (R) , Tauchen (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , VanderMeer (R)

5 cosponsors

Bernier (R) , Cowles (R) , Kooyenga (R) , Pfaff (D) , Roth (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adoption recommended by Committee on Energy and Utilities, Ayes 10, Noes 5

Passed 10–5 Feb 22, 2022 official source full page

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

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 3 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adoption recommended by Committee on Energy and Utilities, Ayes 10, Noes 5

Passed 10–5 Feb 22, 2022 official source full page

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

Assembly: Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adoption recommended by Committee on Energy and Utilities, Ayes 10, Noes 5

Passed 10–5 Feb 22, 2022 official source full page

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

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Energy and Utilities, Ayes 10, Noes 5

Passed 10–5 Feb 22, 2022 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. Sep 30, 2021 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives VanderMeer, Neylon, Armstrong, Born, Brandtjen, Doyle, Duchow, Edming, Gundrum, Knodl, Kuglitsch, Loudenbeck, Moses, Mursau, Oldenburg, Petryk, Spiros, Tauchen and Thiesfeldt; cosponsored by Senators Cowles, Roth, Kooyenga, Bernier and Pfaff

  2. Sep 30, 2021 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Energy and Utilities

  3. Oct 20, 2021 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Dec 6, 2021 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative VanderMeer

  5. Dec 6, 2021 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative VanderMeer

  6. Dec 7, 2021 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representatives Andraca and Moore Omokunde

  7. Dec 7, 2021 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Andraca and Moore Omokunde

  8. Jan 19, 2022 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative VanderMeer

  9. Jan 26, 2022 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 3 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Kuglitsch

  10. Feb 3, 2022 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  11. Feb 14, 2022 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 offered by Representative VanderMeer

  12. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adoption recommended by Committee on Energy and Utilities, Ayes 10, Noes 5

  13. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 3 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adoption recommended by Committee on Energy and Utilities, Ayes 10, Noes 5

  14. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adoption recommended by Committee on Energy and Utilities, Ayes 10, Noes 5

  15. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Energy and Utilities, Ayes 10, Noes 5

  16. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  17. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 8:30 AM on 2-23-2022 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 29

  18. Feb 24, 2022 · Assembly

    Representative Armstrong withdrawn as a coauthor

  19. Feb 24, 2022 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 offered by Representative Kuglitsch

  20. Feb 24, 2022 · Assembly

    Laid on the table

  21. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1