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House Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

  • Committee Assistant: Mindy Sieve 785-296-7663
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    • Meeting Day: Tue/Thu Time: 9:00 am Location: 582-N

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    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Bills In Committee
    HB2032 - Authorizing the state corporation commission to increase or decrease an electric public utility's return on equity based on whether such utility's all-in average retail rate has increased or decreased.
    HB2041 - Requiring a competitive bid process for the permitting of electric transmission lines.
    HB2108 - Requiring the state corporation commission to establish and enforce a code of conduct and agricultural mitigation protocol for the development, operation and decommissioning of certain large energy facilities.
    HB2148 - Prohibiting the permitting and siting of electric transmission lines within any area designated by the United States department of energy as a national interest electric transmission corridor.
    HB2180 - Establishing the blind information access act to require the state library to provide on-demand information access services to persons who are blind, visually impaired, deafblind or print disabled.
    HB2225 - Prohibiting mobile home park landlords from limiting a tenant's access to communications and video services.
    HB2226 - Providing incumbent electric transmission owners a right of first refusal for the construction of certain electric transmission lines.
    Sponsored Bills
    HB2032 - Authorizing the state corporation commission to increase or decrease an electric public utility's return on equity based on whether such utility's all-in average retail rate has increased or decreased.
    HB2040 - Extending the time in which the state corporation commission shall make a final order on a transmission line siting application.
    HB2041 - Requiring a competitive bid process for the permitting of electric transmission lines.
    HB2107 - Providing for claims to recover economic damages from fire events caused by electric public utilities, establishing a statute of limitations for such claims and requiring the state corporation commission to convene a workshop on utility wildfire risk and mitigation.
    HB2108 - Requiring the state corporation commission to establish and enforce a code of conduct and agricultural mitigation protocol for the development, operation and decommissioning of certain large energy facilities.
    HB2109 - Exempting public utilities from civil liability relating to the attachment, access, operation, maintenance or removal of law enforcement equipment on any utility pole or other structure that is owned or operated by the public utility.
    HB2110 - Eliminating the requirement that the state 911 board shall contract with a local collection point administrator for services, rescheduling the date on which the state 911 operations fund, state 911 grant fund and state 911 fund shall be established, requiring certain transfers to be made to the state 911 operations fund and rescheduling the date for transferring all 911 fee moneys currently held outside the state treasury to the state treasury.
    HB2149 - Substitute for HB 2149 by Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications - Requiring distributed energy retailers to disclose certain information to residential customers who are offered or seeking to install a distributed energy system, requiring the attorney general to convene an advisory group to develop, approve and periodically revise a standard form for such disclosures and requiring publication thereof, establishing requirements for interconnection and operation of distributed energy systems, increasing the total capacity limitation for an electric public utility's provision of parallel generation service and a formula to determine appropriate system size.
    HB2180 - Establishing the blind information access act to require the state library to provide on-demand information access services to persons who are blind, visually impaired, deafblind or print disabled.
    HB2225 - Prohibiting mobile home park landlords from limiting a tenant's access to communications and video services.
    HB2226 - Providing incumbent electric transmission owners a right of first refusal for the construction of certain electric transmission lines.
    HB2435 - Enacting the natural gas infrastructure availability act to authorize natural gas public utilities to defer to a regulatory asset all depreciation expense and carrying cost for any new plant, facilities or equipment that such utility has put into service and authorizing recovery of such regulatory asset via an interim rate adjustment mechanism.
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