July 1, 2004, Introduced by Senators GILBERT, PATTERSON, OLSHOVE, BERNERO, HAMMERSTROM and TOY and referred to the Committee on Technology and Energy.
A bill to amend 1939 PA 3, entitled
"An act to provide for the regulation and control of public
utilities and other services affected with a public interest
within this state; to provide for alternative energy suppliers;
to provide for licensing; to include municipally owned utilities
and other providers of energy under certain provisions of this
act; to create a public service commission and to prescribe and
define its powers and duties; to abolish the Michigan public
utilities commission and to confer the powers and duties vested
by law on the public service commission; to provide for the
continuance, transfer, and completion of certain matters and
proceedings; to abolish automatic adjustment clauses; to prohibit
certain rate increases without notice and hearing; to qualify
residential energy conservation programs permitted under state
law for certain federal exemption; to create a fund; to provide
for a restructuring of the manner in which energy is provided in
this state; to encourage the utilization of resource recovery
facilities; to prohibit certain acts and practices of providers
of energy; to allow for the securitization of stranded costs; to
reduce rates; to provide for appeals; to provide appropriations;
to declare the effect and purpose of this act; to prescribe
remedies and penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,"
(MCL 460.1 to 460.10cc) by adding section 10dd.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
1 Sec. 10dd. (1) The commission shall, after notice and
1 hearing, annually approve a low income and energy efficiency
2 factor that shall be a nonbypassable surcharge payable by every
3 customer receiving a distribution service from a gas or electric
4 utility regardless of the identity of the customer's gas or
5 electric generation supplier. The funding shall not exceed an
6 amount equal to 2% of commercial and industrial revenues of each
7 utility.
8 (2) The commission shall administer the distribution of the
9 funds collected under subsection (1) and direct that the funds
10 received from the customers of a gas or electric utility shall
11 only be used to provide energy and conservation assistance to low
12 income and senior citizen customers who reside in the gas or
13 electric utility's service area.
14 (3) As used in this section, "gas utility" means a natural
15 gas company subject to the jurisdiction of the commission under
16 1929 PA 9, MCL 483.101 to 483.120.
17 Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take
18 effect unless all of the following bills of the 92nd Legislature
19 are enacted into law:
20 (a) Senate Bill No. 1335.
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22 (b) Senate Bill No. 1331.
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24 (c) Senate Bill No. 1336.
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26 (d) Senate Bill No. 1334.
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1 (e) Senate Bill No. 1332.
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