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House considers H.B. 127 amendments to allow affected non-user cities to appeal transmission costs; result reported on floor
Summary
Floor sponsors amended H.B. 127 to give cities impacted by transmission lines—but not users of those lines—an appeal to a review board to allocate excess costs proportionally to the public utility; the measure was encircled and later reported with a floor vote result that the transcript records unclearly.
Representative James Hammond explained floor amendments to House Bill 127, which would allow cities affected by a transmission line (but not users of the line) to appeal to a review board. Under the explained amendment, the review board can identify excess costs associated with the transmission line and allocate those costs to the public utility proportionally.
Hammond described page and line references for the amendment and noted some technical housekeeping and prior floor amendments. The House voted to encircle the bill for further consideration and later the clerk announced a floor vote result for H.B. 127 in the transcript; the recorded spoken vote counts in the transcript are garbled and unclear in the available recording.
Next steps: the bill was scheduled for further floor consideration after the encircling action and a floor announcement indicated a vote result was recorded; the exact numeric tally should be confirmed from the House journal because the transcript’s spoken numbers are unclear.
