Additional Bill Links PDF version
SENATE BILL NO. 244
INTRODUCED BY M. BLASDEL
AN ACT REVISING PUBLIC UTILITY ELECTRICITY COST RECOVERY; CLARIFYING STANDARDIZED TREATMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES SUBJECT TO TITLE 69, CHAPTER 3; AND PROVIDING AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:
Section 1. Cost tracking and recovery. (1) If the commission approves a cost-tracking adjustment for a public utility regulated in accordance with chapter 8 or under this chapter, the cost-tracking adjustment must provide for:
(a) identical treatment of public utilities subject to chapter 8 or this chapter;
(b) 90% customer and 10% shareholder sharing of costs, if cost sharing is required; and
(c) full recovery of costs incurred by a public utility as a result of qualifying small power production facility purchase requirements established in Title 69, chapter 3, part 6.
(2) A cost-tracking adjustment may not include a deadband.
(3) For the purposes of this section, "deadband" means a level of cost recovery variance, including levels of under-recoveries and over-recoveries to be borne by the public utility.
Section 2. Codification instruction. [Section 1] is intended to be codified as an integral part of Title 69, chapter 3, and the provisions of Title 69, chapter 3, apply to [section 1].
Section 3. Effective date. [This act] is effective on passage and approval.
- END -
Latest Version
of SB 244 (SB0244.ENR)
Processed for the Web on April 16, 2019 (1:41pm)
New language in a bill appears underlined, deleted material appears stricken.
Sponsor names are handwritten on introduced bills, hence do not appear on the bill until it is reprinted.
See the status of this bill for the bill's primary sponsor.
Status of this Bill | 2019 Legislature | Leg. Branch
Home
All versions of this bill (PDF
format)
Authorized print version of this bill (PDF
format)
[ NEW
SEARCH ]
Prepared by Montana Legislative Services
(406) 444-3064