SB 455

This bill subjects municipal storm water utilities other than metropolitan

sewerage districts to the full authority of the Public Service Commission to regulate

rates and services. Current law authorizes municipalities to construct and operate

systems for collecting, transporting, pumping, treating, or disposing storm water

and surface water and to establish service charges to meet the costs of any of the

following requirements of such a system: constructing, reconstructing, improving,

extending, operating, maintaining, repairing, or depreciating the system or paying

the principal and interest of any indebtedness incurred for the system. Under

current law, municipal storm water utilities are generally not subject to PSC's

jurisdiction, except for addressing complaints by users that municipal storm water

utility rates, rules, or practices are unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory.