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Committee advances bill requiring wastewater providers to perform five-year rate studies and reserve for failures
Summary
House Code/HB1701, as amended, creates a wastewater counterpart to the state's water law requiring wastewater utilities to complete a rate analysis every five years, implement rates to sustain systems, and set aside reserves; the committee passed the measure by voice vote.
The City, County & Local Affairs Committee passed House Code/HB1701 as amended, a bill that requires wastewater providers (public, not private) to conduct a rate analysis every five years and implement rates sufficient to sustain their systems.
Senator K. Gary Stubblefield explained that the measure is the wastewater…
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