Bill Text: NH HB586 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishing a one-year moratorium on applications for certificates for electric transmission facilities.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-11-25 - Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate for Jan 8 (Vote 15-4; Regular Calendar) [HB586 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2013-HB586-Introduced.html

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HB 586 – AS INTRODUCED

2013 SESSION

13-0585

09/04

HOUSE BILL 586

AN ACT establishing a one-year moratorium on applications for certificates for electric transmission facilities.

SPONSORS: Rep. Suzanne Smith, Graf 8; Rep. Ford, Graf 3; Rep. Rappaport, Coos 1; Rep. DiMartino, Belk 2

COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy

ANALYSIS

This bill establishes a one-year moratorium on new and pending applications for certificates for electric transmission facilities.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

13-0585

09/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Thirteen

AN ACT establishing a one-year moratorium on applications for certificates for electric transmission facilities.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Moratorium on Applications for Certificates for Electric Transmission Facilities. All site evaluation committee proceedings on pending applications for certificates for any electric transmission facility not eligible for regional cost allocation, for either local or regional transmission tariffs, by ISO-New England, shall be stayed for one year from the effective date of this section. No new application for such electric transmission facility shall be accepted for filing by the site evaluation committee for one year following the effective date of this section.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.