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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 869

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Relating to: increasing the Focus on Energy rate and including residential energy storage in Focus on Energy. (FE)

Electric utility Energy conservation Public service commission

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, 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 makes changes to the funding of statewide energy efficiency and renewable resources programs, known as Focus on Energy, that current law requires investor-owned electric and natural gas utilities to fund. Under the bill, the Public Service Commission must require those utilities to spend 2.4 percent of their annual operating revenues derived from retail sales to fund Focus on Energy and related programs. Under current law, those utilities must spend 1.2 percent of their annual operating revenues from retail sales. The bill also includes residential energy storage system programs in Focus on Energy.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Carpenter (D) , Hesselbein (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Spreitzer (D)

22 cosponsors

Andraca (D) , Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Brown (D) , Clancy (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Goodwin (D) , Hong (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Madison (D) , Mayadev (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Neubauer (D) , Palmeri (D) , Sinicki (D) , Subeck (D) , Taylor (D) , Tenorio (D) , Vining (D)

Full history

  1. Jan 23, 2026 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Larson, L. Johnson, Hesselbein, Carpenter, Ratcliff and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Moore Omokunde, Clancy, Madison, Hong, Tenorio, Miresse, Andraca, Arney, Bare, Brown, DeSmidt, Fitzgerald, Goodwin, Joers, Neubauer, Palmeri, Sinicki, Subeck, Taylor and Vining

  2. Jan 23, 2026 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Utilities, Technology and Tourism

  3. Mar 3, 2026 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Mar 19, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Mayadev added as a cosponsor

  5. Mar 19, 2026 · Senate

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor

  6. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1