Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session
Relating to: the amount certain public utilities may recover in rates relating to amounts assessed by the Public Service Commission.
Public service commission Public utility
- Introduced, stopped here
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill lowers the total amount that certain public utilities can recover in
rates for PSC proceeding expenditures.
Under current law, a public utility, sewerage system, or power district
(collectively, utility) may not raise the rates that it charges to customers without first
applying to the PSC for approval of the change. The PSC may assess to utilities
certain amounts corresponding to the PSC's expenditures in carrying out its duties
relating to utilities. Generally under current law, a public utility that supplies gas
or electricity to its customers and that is not a city, town, or village may recover in
rates any expenditure for costs in a proceeding before the PSC up to four times the
total amount assessed to that public utility by the PSC. This bill reduces this limit
to the total amount assessed to that public utility by the PSC.
Sponsors
Full history
- Nov 9, 2023 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Cowles and Stroebel; cosponsored by Representatives Gustafson, Neylon, Tittl, Baldeh, Green, Krug, Murphy, O'Connor, Rettinger, Rozar, Spiros and Tranel
- Nov 9, 2023 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Utilities and Technology
- Apr 15, 2024 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1