Bill Text: AZ HCR2039 | 2016 | Fifty-second Legislature 2nd Regular | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Public service corporations; furnishing electricity

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-04-28 - Senate Committee of the Whole action: Do Pass Amended [HCR2039 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2016-HCR2039-Engrossed.html

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Senate Engrossed House Bill

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-second Legislature

Second Regular Session

2016

 

 

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 2039

 

 

 

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

 

proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Arizona; amending article XV, section 2, Constitution of Arizona; relating to public service corporations.

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona, the Senate concurring:

1.  Article XV, section 2, Constitution of Arizona, is proposed to be amended as follows if approved by the voters and on proclamation of the Governor:

2.  "Public service corporations" defined

Section 2.  All corporations, other than municipal, engaged in furnishing gas, oil,  or electricity for light, fuel,  or power;  or in furnishing water for irrigation, fire protection,  or other public purposes;  or in furnishing, for profit, hot or cold air or steam for heating or cooling purposes;  or engaged in collecting, transporting, treating, purifying and disposing of sewage through a system, for profit;  or in transmitting messages or furnishing public telegraph or telephone service,  and all corporations, other than municipal, operating as common carriers,  shall be deemed public service corporations.  For the purposes of this section, A CORPORATION, OTHER THAN MUNICIPAL, engaged in furnishing electricity includes a corporation that is PRIMARILY ENGAGed IN LEASING OR OTHERWISE FINANCING, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, THE PROVISION OF A DEVICE OR SYSTEM THAT IS USED FOR THE GENERATION OR STORAGE OF ELECTRICITY that is REGULARLY USED FOR CONSUMPTION BY AN END USER OF tHe ELECTrICITY.

2.  Short title

This measure may be cited as the "Solar Consumer Protection Act".

3.  The Secretary of State shall submit this proposition to the voters at the next general election as provided by article XXI, Constitution of Arizona.