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Committee sends bill expanding commerce authority to include sewer projects to the floor

2287131 · February 12, 2025
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State Representative Clay Handy, who represents District 27 (Cassia, Oneida and Minidoka counties), told the Local Government Committee that House Bill 171 would allow communities’ commerce (intermodal) authorities to plan and finance water and sewer facilities while excluding electricity production and distribution.

State Representative Clay Handy, who represents District 27 (Cassia, Oneida and Minidoka counties), told the Local Government Committee that House Bill 171 would allow a community’s commerce or intermodal authority to undertake, finance and operate additional utility services including water and sewer facilities, while explicitly excluding electricity transmission, distribution and production.

"What we have the need for now is all of a sudden our sewer ponds and everything wore out at the same time," Handy said, describing…

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