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SF0072 • 2024
Utility donations.
AN ACT relating to public utilities; requiring that the public service commission prohibit rate recovery of all costs resulting from voluntary donations by a utility; and providing for an effective date.
Inactive
Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.
- Sponsor
- Senator Case
- Last action
- 2024-03-05
- Official status
- inactive
- Effective date
- 3/1/2024
Plain English Breakdown
The official source does not provide specific definitions for terms like 'initial', 'ongoing', and 'additional' costs. These were removed as they are not explicitly defined in the provided material.
Utility Donations
A bill that stops utilities from adding the costs of their voluntary donations to customer bills.
What This Bill Does
- Requires the Public Service Commission to not allow utilities to include donation-related costs in rates.
Who It Names or Affects
- Public utilities that make voluntary donations
- Customers of public utilities
Terms To Know
- Voluntary Donations
- Gifts or contributions made by a utility without being required to do so.
- Public Service Commission
- The agency that sets rates for public utilities in Wyoming.
Limits and Unknowns
- This bill is marked as inactive and will not move forward in the current session.
- It does not specify what happens to costs already included in customer bills before the effective date.
Amendments
These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.
Plain English: The amendment changes the bill to require that public utilities cannot include in customer rates any costs resulting from voluntary donations, and also adds a provision to prevent such costs being passed onto other customers.
- Adds language to prohibit public utilities from recovering costs of voluntary donations through rate increases.
- Includes additional wording to ensure no costs related to voluntary donations can be imposed on other utility customers.
Bill History
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2024-03-05
House
H:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 5-4
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2024-03-05
House
H No report prior to CoW Cutoff
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2024-02-28
House
H Introduced and Referred to H06 - Travel
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2024-02-28
House
H Received for Introduction
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2024-02-27
Senate
S 3rd Reading:Passed 28-2-0-0-1
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2024-02-26
Senate
S 2nd Reading:Passed
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2024-02-23
Senate
S COW:Passed
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2024-02-21
Senate
S Placed on General File
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2024-02-21
Senate
S07 - Corporations:Recommend Do Pass 4-0-1-0-0
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2024-02-13
Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S07 - Corporations 29-1-1-0-0
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2024-02-09
Senate
S Received for Introduction
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2024-02-05
LSO
Bill Number Assigned
Current Bill Text
Read the full stored bill text
24LSO-0520
2024
STATE OF WYOMING
24LSO-0520
ENGROSSED
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SENATE FILE NO. SF0072
Utility donations.
Sponsored by: Senator(s) Case
A BILL
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AN ACT relating to public utilities; requiring that the public service commission prohibit rate recovery of all costs resulting from voluntary donations by a utility; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1.
W.S. 37
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122 by creating a new subsection (f) is amended to read:
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122.
Matters considered in fixing rates; order changing services or facilities; qualifying facilities contracts; voluntary donations.
(f)
In setting rates, the commission shall prohibit rate recovery of all costs, including initial costs, ongoing costs and costs imposed on other customers, resulting from or related to voluntary donations made by a utility.
Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2024
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