CHAPTER NUMBER: 4
File Code: Utility Regulation
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 300
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Taylor, Guns, Hixson, Hurson, Howard, Menes, Montague,
Owings, Rawlings, Rosenberg, Vallario, and Wood
- Entitled:
-
Electric Utility Industry Restructuring
Enabling the restructuring of the electric utility industry of the
State, subject to oversight of the Public Service Commission;
requiring the phased implementation of customer choice for electric
customers in the State; reducing certain rates for 4 years; allowing
municipal electric utilities to make their service territory available
for customer choice; requiring an electric company to provide certain
services in its territory; requiring persons to be licensed before
providing electricity supply services in the State; etc.
House Action
- 2/12
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 2/17
- Hearing 2/25 at 12:00 p.m.
- 3/24
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Special Order 3/25 (Delegate Guns) Adopted
- 3/25
- Special Order after Third Reading calendar (Delegate Guns) Adopted
- Floor Committee Amendment Adopted
- Floor Committee Amendment Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Snodgrass)
- Motion vote previous question (Delegate Minnick) Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Snodgrass) Rejected (39-88)
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Pitkin) Rejected (33-95)
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Pitkin) Rejected
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Grosfeld) Rejected
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Dypski) Rejected (31-80)
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Bobo) Rejected (33-90)
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/26
- Third Reading Passed (99-36)
- 3/30
- House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
- House Requests Senate Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Delegates Guns, Schisler, and Taylor
- 3/31
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Motion vote previous question (Delegate Minnick) Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (96-36)
- 4/2
- Passed Enrolled
- 4/8
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 4
Senate Action
- 3/29
- First Reading Finance
- 3/30
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- Motion 2rdgs same day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Bromwell) Adopted (39-4)
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (36-8)
- 4/1
- Senate Refuses to Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Senators Bromwell, Madden, and Miller
- 4/2
- Conference Committee Report Adopted (35-12)
- Third Reading Passed (34-13)
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Casper R. Taylor, Jr., District 1C
- Delegate Ronald A. Guns, District 36
- Delegate Sheila Ellis Hixson, District 20
- Delegate Carolyn J. B. Howard, District 24
- Delegate John Adams Hurson, District 18
- Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
- Delegate Kenneth C. Montague, Jr., District 43
- Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
- Delegate Howard P. Rawlings, District 40
- Delegate Samuel I. Rosenberg, District 42
- Delegate Joseph F. Vallario, Jr., District 27A
- Delegate John F. Wood, Jr., District 29A
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT
- APPROPRIATIONS
- ATTORNEY GENERAL
- BUDGETS -see also- CAPITAL BUDGETS
- CONSUMER PROTECTION -see also- ADVTG.; LABELING; WARRANTIES.
- CONTRACTS -see also- LAND INSTALLMENT CONTRACTS; PROCUREMENT
- COUNTIES -see also- CHARTERED COUNTIES; CODE COUNTIES
- DISCLOSURE
- DISCRIMINATION -see also- SEX DISCRIMINATION
- EDUCATION -see also- PUBLIC SCHOOLS; SPECIAL ED.; HIGHER ED.
- ENERGY MATTERS -see also- FUEL; POWER PLANTS; SOLAR ENERGY
- ENVIRONMENT, DEPARTMENT OF
- ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS -see also- NAT. RESOURCES; POLLUTION
- FEES -see also- DEVELOPMENT FEES AND TAXES
- GENERAL ASSEMBLY -see also- AELR CMTE; LEGISLATIVE POLICY
- GOVERNOR
- HIGH VOLTAGE LINES
- HUMAN RESOURCES, DEPARTMENT OF
- INDIGENT PERSONS
- INVESTIGATIONS AND INQUIRIES -see also- CRIM BCKGRND INVEST.
- LICENSES -see also- ALC. BEVERAGES LIC; DRIVERS' LIC
- MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS
- NATURAL RESOURCES, DEPARTMENT OF
- PENALTIES
- POWER PLANTS
- PRICES -see also- CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
- PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
- REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
- REVENUE AND TAXES -see also specific taxes-
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- UNIFORM LAWS
- UTILITIES -see also- HIGH VOLTAGE LINES; TELEPHONES; WATER
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Commercial Law
- (
9-104 ,
9-104
)
- Natural Resources
- (
3-302
)
- Public Utility Companies
- (
1-101 ,
2-110 ,
2-118 ,
4-201 ,
4-202 ,
4-403 ,
7-201 ,
7-203 ,
7-207 ,
7-211 ,
7-501 ,
7-502 ,
7-503 ,
7-504 ,
7-505 ,
7-506 ,
7-507 ,
7-508 ,
7-509 ,
7-510 ,
7-511 ,
7-512 ,
7-513 ,
7-514 ,
7-515 ,
7-516 ,
7-517
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 343219/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 25, 1999 at:
4:38 p.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 373711/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 25, 1999 at:
5:34 p.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 379692/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 25, 1999 at:
4:34 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 459591/2 (PDF) Offered on: March 25, 1999 at:
4:35 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 603712/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 25, 1999 at:
5:13 p.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 679593/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 24, 1999 at:
6:35 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 703417/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 25, 1999 at:
5:46 p.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 713713/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 25, 1999 at:
5:23 p.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 863713/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 25, 1999 at:
4:59 p.m. Status: Rejected
- Senate
- Number: 517567/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 30, 1999 at:
10:35 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Conference Committee Documents:
- Report Number: 693313/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 2, 1999 at:
11:14 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Amendment Number: 063613/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 2, 1999 at:
11:14 a.m. Status: Incomplete
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- March 25, 1999: Floor Amendment (Snodgrass) Rejected (39-88)
- March 25, 1999: Floor Amendment (Pitkin) {863713/1 Rejected (33-95)
- March 25, 1999: Floor Amendment (Dypski) {373711/1 Rejected (31-80)
- March 25, 1999: Floor Amendment (Bobo) {703417/1 Rejected (33-90)
- March 26, 1999: Third Reading Passed (99-36)
- March 31, 1999: Third Reading Passed (95-36)
- Senate
- March 30, 1999: Motion 2rdgs same day Const/Rule 24 (Bromwell) Adopted (39-4)
- March 30, 1999: Third Reading Passed (36-8)
- April 2, 1999: Conference Committee Report {693313/1 Adopted (35-12)
- April 2, 1999: Third Reading Passed (34-13)