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Committee reviews technical corrections: moves some Public Utility Commission authority to Transportation Board, flags log-drive statute and rail items
Summary
Legislative Council inserted technical corrections shifting references from the Public Utility Commission to the Transportation Board, added edits to transit-authority charter language and included language related to historic log-drive provisions that the committee may want to refer elsewhere for repeal review.
The committee reviewed technical corrections Wednesday that update statutory references and cleaning items in a broad transportation draft. Legislative Council staff said many of the edits reflect agency requests or recently supplied language from the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) and other parties.
Damian Leonard said the bulk of the PUC-proposed changes were straightforward “1-for-1” updates that replace references to the Public Utility Commission with the Transportation Board in several sections. He identified two clusters of edits that warrant separate attention: changes tied to transit-authority charters (particularly Green Mountain Transit Authority) and a set of older provisions dealing with log drives that committee…
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