Florida Senate Bill 974 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on May 5 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-05-05 - Died in Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Authorizing a municipality or a county operating under a home rule charter to file a request with the Public Service Commission for a hearing for a determination of prudence on environmental damage caused by a public utility; requiring that pending hearings regarding recovery for remediation of such environmental damage be stayed until after the commission makes such determination or until the request is dismissed; prohibiting the utility from recovering expenditures to remedy the damage upon a finding that the utility did not act prudently, etc.

Public Utility Environmental Remediation Costs

Sen. Jose Rodriguez [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-05-05	Senate	Died in Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities
2017-05-05	Senate	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2017-03-07	Senate	Introduced
2017-02-23	Senate	Referred to Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities; Community Affairs; Environmental Preservation and Conservation; Rules
2017-02-15	Senate	Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
366	8256		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/974
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0974/BillText/Filed/HTML