(Corrected)
As Amended by House Committee
As Amended by Senate Committee
Session of 1998
SENATE BILL No. 436
By Committee on Utilities
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AN ACT establishing the
a joint committee on taxation of public
utilities
19 to study and make
recommendations regarding taxation of
deregulated
20 electric
generation public utilities the electricity
industry.
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22 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Kansas:
23 Section 1. (a)
There is hereby established the joint committee on
24 taxation of electric public
utilities the electricity industry. The
joint
25 committee shall consist of 13
members, as follows the following mem-
26 bers: The chairpersons,
vice-chairpersons and ranking minority members
27 of the house and senate standing committees
on taxation and assessment
28 and taxation,
and the house and senate standing committees on
utilities
29 and the chairperson of the
retail wheeling task force, or their
designees,
30 and all legislators who are members of
the retail wheeling task
31 force.
32 (b) Within 30
days after the effective date of this act, the joint
com-
33 mittee shall organize and elect
a chairperson and vice-chairperson The
34 chairperson and vice-chairperson of the
retail wheeling task force
35 shall serve as chairperson and
vice-chairperson, respectively, of
36 the joint committee. The joint
committee may meet at any time and at
37 any place within the state on call of the
chairperson. Members of the joint
38 committee shall receive compensation,
travel expenses and subsistence
39 expenses or allowances as provided in
K.S.A. 75-3212, and amendments
40 thereto, when attending meetings of such
committee. Amounts paid un-
41 der authority of this section shall be paid
from appropriations for legis-
42 lative expense and vouchers therefor shall
be prepared by the director of
43 legislative administrative services and
approved by the chairperson or
44 vice-chairperson of the legislative
coordinating council.
45 (c) The staff of the
office of the revisor of statutes, the legislative
46 research department and the division of
legislative administrative services
47 shall provide such assistance as may be
requested by the joint committee
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1 and authorized by the legislative
coordinating council. The legislative di-
2 vision of post audit shall provide
such assistance as may be requested by
3 the committee and authorized by the
legislative post audit committee.
4 The department of revenue, the
commission and all other state agencies
5 shall provide assistance to the joint
committee as may be requested by
6 the committee.
7 (d) The joint
committee shall study, investigate and analyze the ram-
8 ifications to the taxing systems of
the state and its political subdivisions
9 arising from the deregulation
of electric generation public utilities and
10 the relative tax impacts upon and
among electric generation public util-
11 ities restructuring
of the electricity industry and the relative tax
12 impacts of restructuring on and among
electricity providers, with
13 the goal of recommending a
uniform tax policy that
allows all elec-
14 tricity providers to be taxed on a
fair and equal
basis. The joint
15 committee shall submit to the legislature
on or before January 11, 1999,
16 a final report of the committee's findings
and recommendations. The
17 committee may introduce such legislation as
it deems necessary in the
18 performance of its function.
19 (e) The joint committee
is hereby abolished on and after July 1
Jan-
20 uary 11, 1999.
21 Sec. 2. This act
shall take effect and be in force from and after its
22 publication in the Kansas register.
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