Bill Text: MO HB2237 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes The Nuclear Energy Standard
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-08 - Referred: Utilities(H) [HB2237 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2014-HB2237-Introduced.html
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE KORMAN.
6474H.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 393, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the nuclear energy standard.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 393, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 393.1130, to read as follows:
393.1130. 1. This section shall be known and may be cited as “The Nuclear Energy Standard”.
2. For purposes of this section, the term “commission” shall mean the public service commission, the term “utility” shall mean any municipal utility, electrical cooperative regulated under chapter 394, or utility regulated by the commission under chapter 386, the term “operational” shall mean that a facility’s production has, in the opinion of the commission, become a reasonable and prudent business practice that is capable of continuing and capable of meeting the electricity demand required to meet the nuclear energy standards of this section, and the term “small modular nuclear reactor” shall mean a nuclear reactor based on fission that is approved under federal and state law and regulations to be constructed in this state which produces less than three hundred megawatts of clean electrical energy.
3. Upon the fulfillment of subsection 4 of this section, the commission shall prescribe by rule that all utilities in this state produce electricity using small modular nuclear reactors such that two percent of each utilities’ total electricity retail sales are made based on electricity generated by such reactors. The commission shall have discretion with regard to the time frame for requiring compliance with the nuclear energy standard, but in no case shall it require full compliance less than three years from the fulfillment of the conditions for the effective date of this section. The commission may promulgate such rules or regulations as are necessary to administer the provisions of this section. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is created under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all the provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028. This section and chapter 536 are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly under chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective date, or to disapprove and annual a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2014, shall be invalid and void.
4. This section shall become effective only if a production facility for small modular nuclear reactors has been built in this state and is operational. Such facility shall have produced no fewer than three small modular nuclear reactors in accordance with all federal and state laws and regulations, and such reactors shall be legally available for sale or use. If the commission determines that a production facility is properly operational in accordance with this section, then it shall comply with the requirements of subsection 3 of this section.
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