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2021 SESSION
SB 1380 Electric utilities; electric school bus projects.
Introduced by: L. Louise Lucas | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Electric utilities; electric school bus projects; report. Authorizes electric utilities to partner with school divisions to implement projects designed to encourage the proliferation of school buses that are fueled in whole or in part by electricity, along with associated charging and other infrastructure, for the purpose of transporting students and that may also serve as electric grid stabilization or peak-shaving resources. The bill provides that if an electric school bus project meets the requirements in the bill, then it is in the public interest and may constitute an energy storage resource. The bill requires an electric school bus project and its corresponding agreement to include a provision to compensate a participating school division for the use of the school bus battery by the electric utility as a grid stabilizing or peak-shaving resource and a provision that the electric school buses shall be titled under the participating school division, but the utility shall own the associated batteries and charging stations. The bill also provides a tax exemption for electric school buses and associated charging and other infrastructure that is related or incidental to an authorized electric school bus project.
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HISTORY
- 01/12/21 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102845D
- 01/12/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/25/21 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 2-N)
- 01/25/21 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/02/21 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/21 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/05/21 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (33-Y 4-N)
- 02/07/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/07/21 House: Read first time
- 02/07/21 House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
- 02/08/21 House: Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce by voice vote