Bill Text: FL S1006 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public Electric Utility Rates

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-05-03 - Died in Innovation, Industry, and Technology [S1006 Detail]

Download: Florida-2019-S1006-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2019                                    SB 1006
       
       
        
       By Senator Rodriguez
       
       
       
       
       
       37-00319-19                                           20191006__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to public electric utility rates;
    3         amending s. 366.06, F.S.; requiring public electric
    4         utilities to charge specified electric rates as of a
    5         certain date; providing an effective date.
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    7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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    9         Section 1. Subsection (5) is added to section 366.06,
   10  Florida Statutes, to read:
   11         366.06 Rates; procedure for fixing and changing.—
   12         (5) Effective on the date of the conclusion of the first
   13  public electric rate request hearing before the commission after
   14  July 1, 2019, or if no such hearing occurs before July 1, 2023,
   15  on July 1, 2023, a public electric utility shall charge for the
   16  first 500 kilowatt hours used by a residential customer a rate
   17  that is 25 percent below the overall rate charged by the public
   18  electric utility for that customer or, if the public electric
   19  utility applies a progressive rate schedule to charge that
   20  customer, 25 percent below the second tier of the progressive
   21  rate schedule for that customer.
   22         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.