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HB1902 • 2026

Modifies the definition of renewable energy resources

Modifies the definition of renewable energy resources

Energy
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Plank, Adrian (047)
Last action
2026-05-15
Official status
05/15/2026 - Referred: Emerging Issues(H)
Effective date
2026-08-28

Plain English Breakdown

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Modifies the definition of renewable energy resources

Modifies the definition of renewable energy resources

What This Bill Does

  • Modifies the definition of renewable energy resources

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-15 Missouri House of Representatives and Missouri Senate

    Referred: Emerging Issues(H)

  2. 2026-01-08 Missouri House of Representatives and Missouri Senate

    Read Second Time (H)

  3. 2026-01-07 Missouri House of Representatives and Missouri Senate

    Read First Time (H)

  4. 2025-12-01 Missouri House of Representatives and Missouri Senate

    Prefiled (H)

Official Summary Text

Modifies the definition of renewable energy resources

Current Bill Text

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SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 1902
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBL Y
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENT A TIVE PLANK.
3957H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
T o repeal section 393.1025, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to
renewable ener gy resources.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 393.1025, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu
2 thereof, to be known as section 393.1025, to read as follows:
393.1025. As used in sections 393.1020 to 393.1030, the following terms mean:
2 (1) "Commission", the public service commission;
3 (2) "Department", the department of economic development;
4 (3) "Electric utility", any electrical corporation as defined by section 386.020;
5 (4) "Renewable ener gy credit" or "REC", a tradeable certificate of proof that one
6 megawatt-hour of electricity has been generated from renewable ener gy sources; and
7 (5) "Renewable ener gy resources", electric ener gy produced from wind, solar thermal
8 sources, photovoltaic cells and panels, dedicated crops grown for ener gy production,
9 cellulosic agricultural residues, plant residues, methane from landfills, from agricultural
10 operations, or from wastewater treatment, thermal depolymerization or pyrolysis for
11 converting waste material to ener gy , clean and untreated wood such as pallets, hydropower
12 [ (not ] including pumped storage[ ) ] that does not require a new diversion or impoundment of
13 water and that has a nameplate rating of ten megawatts or less, fuel cells using hydrogen
14 produced by one of the above-named renewable ener gy sources, and other sources of ener gy
EXPLANA TION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is
intended to be omitted from the law . Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.
15 not including nuclear that become available after November 4, 2008, and are certified as
16 renewable by rule by the department.
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