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2017 SESSION
HB 1671 Natural gas utilities; qualified projects, investments in eligible infrastructure.
Introduced by: James W. Morefield | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS ENACTED WITH GOVERNOR'S RECOMMENDATION: (all summaries)
Qualified projects of natural gas utilities. Exempts any natural gas utility serving fewer than 2,000 residential customers and fewer than 350 commercial and industrial customers in the year in which the utility makes an investment for qualifying projects from the provision that limits the amount of investment that a natural gas utility may make in qualifying projects to one percent of its net plant investment that was used in establishing base rates in its most recent rate case. The existing exemption to the one percent cap was enacted in 2013 and applies to any natural gas utility serving fewer than 1,000 residential customers and fewer than 250 commercial and industrial customers in such year. Legislation enacted in 2012 established a mechanism for natural gas utilities to recover the eligible infrastructure development costs of a qualifying project through future rates. A qualifying project is an economic development project for which, among other things, the utility has received a binding commitment from the developer or occupant of the proposed project regarding capacity or a financial guaranty from the developer or state or local government in the amount of at least 50 percent of the estimated investment to be made in the proposed project. This bill is identical to SB 1289.
FULL TEXT
- 01/05/17 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102752D pdf | impact statement
- 01/23/17 House: Printed as engrossed 17102752D-E pdf | impact statement
- 02/20/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1671ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/05/17 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB1671ER2) pdf
- 04/05/17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0780) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/05/17 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102752D
- 01/05/17 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/17/17 House: Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (20-Y 0-N)
- 01/19/17 House: Read first time
- 01/20/17 House: Passed by for the day
- 01/23/17 House: Read second time
- 01/23/17 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 01/23/17 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB1671E
- 01/23/17 House: Printed as engrossed 17102752D-E
- 01/24/17 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/17 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
- 01/25/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/25/17 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/13/17 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (11-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/17 Senate: Read third time
- 02/16/17 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/17 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/17 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/17 House: Enrolled
- 02/20/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1671ER)
- 02/20/17 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/21/17 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/21/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- 02/21/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- 03/03/17 House: Governor's recommendation received by House
- 04/05/17 House: Placed on Calendar
- 04/05/17 House: House concurred in Governor's recommendation (100-Y 0-N)
- 04/05/17 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (100-Y 0-N)
- 04/05/17 Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
- 04/05/17 Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
- 04/05/17 House: Reenrolled
- 04/05/17 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB1671ER2)
- 04/05/17 House: Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 04/05/17 Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
- 04/05/17 House: Enacted, Chapter 780 (effective 7/1/17)
- 04/05/17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0780)