Bill Text: MI HB5606 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Energy: nuclear; definition of advanced nuclear reactors; provide for. Amends sec. 10h of 1939 PA 3 (MCL 460.10h). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5608'24, HB 5609'24
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-21 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 03/20/2024 [HB5606 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB5606-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 5606
A bill to amend 1939 PA 3, entitled
"An act to provide for the regulation and control of public and certain private utilities and other services affected with a public interest within this state; to provide for alternative energy suppliers and certain providers of electric vehicle charging services; 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 powers and duties of certain state governmental officers and entities; 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 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,"
by amending section 10h (MCL 460.10h), as amended by 2023 PA 245.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 10h. As used in this act:
(a) "Advanced nuclear reactor technologies" means material improvements to a utilization facility, as that term is defined in 42 USC 2014 and 10 CFR 50.2, that has significant improvements, including additional inherent safety features, compared to reactors operating before January 1, 2016, in the United States. Advanced nuclear reactor technologies includes both of the following:
(i) Advanced nuclear reactors, as that term is defined in 42 USC 16271.
(ii) Existing electricity generating facilities benefiting from research, development, demonstration, and commercialization programs, as described in 42 USC 16272, in this state powered by nuclear energy that have completed a life cycle management program.
(b) (a) "Assignee" means an individual, corporation, or other legally recognized entity to which an interest in securitization property is transferred.
(c) (b) "Commission" means the Michigan public service commission created in section 1.
(d) (c) "Electric utility" means that term as defined in section 2 of the electric transmission line certification act, 1995 PA 30, MCL 460.562.
(e) (d) "Electric vehicle" means that term as defined in section 2(f)(iii) of the Michigan next energy authority act, 2002 PA 593, MCL 207.822.
(f) (e) "Electric vehicle charging services" means the transfer of electric energy from electric vehicle service equipment to a battery or other storage device in an electric vehicle, and the provision of billing services, networking, and operation and maintenance related to that transfer of electric energy to an electric vehicle.
(g) (f) "Electric vehicle charging station" means an electric component assembly or cluster of component assemblies designed specifically to charge batteries within an electric vehicle by permitting the transfer of electric energy to a battery or other storage device in an electric vehicle.
(h) (g) "Financing order" means an order of the commission approving the issuance of securitization bonds and the creation of securitization charges and any corresponding utility rate reductions.
(i) (h) "Financing party" means a holder of securitization bonds, including trustees, collateral agents, and other persons acting for the benefit of the holder.
(j) (i) "Nonbypassable charge" means a charge in a financing order payable by a customer to an electric utility or its assignees or successors regardless of the identity of the customer's electric generation supplier.
(k) (j) "Qualified costs" means an electric utility's regulatory assets as determined by the commission, adjusted by the applicable portion of related investment tax credits, plus any costs that the commission determines that the electric utility would be unlikely to collect in a competitive market, including, but not limited to, retail open access implementation costs and the costs of a commission approved restructuring, buyout or buy-down of a power purchase contract, together with the costs of issuing, supporting, and servicing securitization bonds and any costs of retiring and refunding the electric utility's existing debt and equity securities in connection with the issuance of securitization bonds. Qualified costs include taxes related to the recovery of securitization charges.
(l) (k) "Securitization bonds" means bonds, debentures, notes, certificates of participation, certificates of a beneficial interest, certificates of ownership, or other evidences of indebtedness that are issued by an electric utility, its successors, or an assignee under a financing order, that have a term of not more than 15 years, and that are secured by or payable from securitization property. If certificates of participation, certificates of beneficial interest, or certificates of ownership are issued, references in this act to principal, interest, or premium refer to comparable amounts under those certificates.
(m) (l) "Securitization charges" means nonbypassable amounts to be charged for the use or availability of electric services, approved by the commission under a financing order to fully recover qualified costs, that shall must be collected by an electric utility, its successors, an assignee, or other collection agents as provided for in the financing order.
(n) (m) "Securitization property" means the property described in section 10j.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 102nd Legislature are enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 5608 (request no. 04578'23 *).
(b) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 5609 (request no. 05524'24 *).
