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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 892

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Relating to: an incumbent transmission facility owner's right to construct, own, and maintain certain transmission facilities.

Electric utility

  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 grants to an incumbent transmission facility owner the right to

construct, own, and maintain a transmission facility that has been approved for

construction in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator's (MISO)

transmission plan and that connects to transmission facilities owned by that

incumbent transmission facility owner. Under the bill, an “incumbent transmission

facility owner” is a transmission company or a cooperative or public utility that owns

a transmission facility and provides transmission service in this state. Under

current law, MISO is an organization that is subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission and that coordinates and controls electric

transmission in a region of the country that includes this state. The bill provides that

the right to construct, own, and maintain a transmission facility that connects to

transmission facilities owned by two or more incumbent transmission facility owners

belongs individually and proportionally to each incumbent transmission facility

owner, unless otherwise agreed upon in writing.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Kuglitsch (R) , Steffen (R) , Tauchen (R) , Vorpagel (R)

5 cosponsors

Bradley (R) , Murphy (R) , Pfaff (D) , Roth (R) , Smith (D)

Full history

  1. Jan 21, 2022 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Vorpagel, Kuglitsch, Steffen and Tauchen; cosponsored by Senators Bradley, Roth, Pfaff and Smith

  2. Jan 21, 2022 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Energy and Utilities

  3. Jan 24, 2022 · Assembly

    Representative Murphy added as a coauthor

  4. Feb 3, 2022 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1