Bill Text: FL S1294 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Municipal Power Regulation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2014-05-02 - Died in Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities [S1294 Detail]

Download: Florida-2014-S1294-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2014                                    SB 1294
       
       
        
       By Senator Altman
       
       
       
       
       
       16-01233-14                                           20141294__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to municipal power regulation;
    3         amending s. 366.02, F.S.; amending the definition of
    4         “public utility” to include municipalities that
    5         receive or purchase power from an entity created under
    6         the Florida Interlocal Cooperation Act of 1969;
    7         amending the definition of “electric utility” to
    8         exempt municipalities that do not purchase or receive
    9         power from an entity created under the Florida
   10         Interlocal Cooperation Act of 1969; providing an
   11         effective date.
   12          
   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   15         Section 1. Subsections (1) and (2) of section 366.02,
   16  Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
   17         366.02 Definitions.—As used in this chapter:
   18         (1) “Public utility” means every person, corporation,
   19  partnership, association, or other legal entity and their
   20  lessees, trustees, or receivers supplying electricity or gas
   21  (natural, manufactured, or similar gaseous substance) to or for
   22  the public within this state and includes a municipality or an
   23  agency thereof that purchases or receives all or a portion of
   24  its power from an entity created under the Florida Interlocal
   25  Cooperation Act of 1969.; but The term “public utility” does not
   26  include either a cooperative now or hereafter organized and
   27  existing under the Rural Electric Cooperative Law of the state;
   28  a municipality or any agency thereof that does not purchase or
   29  receive any power from an entity created under the Florida
   30  Interlocal Cooperation Act of 1969; any dependent or independent
   31  special natural gas district; any natural gas transmission
   32  pipeline company making only sales or transportation delivery of
   33  natural gas at wholesale and to direct industrial consumers; any
   34  entity selling or arranging for sales of natural gas which
   35  neither owns nor operates natural gas transmission or
   36  distribution facilities within the state; or a person supplying
   37  liquefied petroleum gas, in either liquid or gaseous form,
   38  irrespective of the method of distribution or delivery, or
   39  owning or operating facilities beyond the outlet of a meter
   40  through which natural gas is supplied for compression and
   41  delivery into motor vehicle fuel tanks or other transportation
   42  containers, unless such person also supplies electricity or
   43  manufactured or natural gas.
   44         (2) “Electric utility” means any municipal electric utility
   45  that does not purchase or receive any power from an entity
   46  created under the Florida Interlocal Cooperation Act of 1969,
   47  investor-owned electric utility, or rural electric cooperative
   48  which owns, maintains, or operates an electric generation,
   49  transmission, or distribution system within the state.
   50         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.