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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 1062

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Relating to: prohibited employment for former members of the Public Service Commission.

Ethics Public service commission Public 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

Under this bill, no former commissioner of the Public Service Commission, for 36 months following the date on which he or she ceases to be a commissioner, may engage in employment for compensation with an investor-owned public utility or a transmission company if the former commissioner’s employment duties for the utility or company include policy making or executive decision-making, operations management, or government relations. Any violation of the bill’s employment prohibition is enforced as a violation of the state’s code of ethics for state public officials under laws administered by the Ethics Commission. Additionally, the bill’s employment prohibition first applies retroactively to a person who ceases to be a commissioner during the 12 months immediately preceding the date on which the bill becomes law.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Behnke (R) , Brill (R) , Dittrich (R) , Donovan (R) , Duchow (R) , Goeben (R) , Green (R) , Gustafson (R) , Knodl (R) , Kreibich (R) , Krug (R) , Maxey (R) , Murphy (R) , Nedweski (R) , Neylon (R) , O'Connor (R) , Penterman (R) , Stroud (D) , Wichgers (R)

3 cosponsors

Hutton (R) , Kapenga (R) , Spreitzer (D)

Full history

  1. Feb 26, 2026 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Nedweski, Donovan, Behnke, Brill, Dittrich, Duchow, Goeben, Green, Gustafson, Knodl, Kreibich, Krug, Maxey, Murphy, Neylon, O'Connor, Penterman, Wichgers and Stroud; cosponsored by Senators Kapenga, Hutton and Spreitzer

  2. Feb 26, 2026 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Energy and Utilities

  3. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1