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Senate debate over energy bill centers on authority composition, cost-shifting and permitting timelines
Summary
Lawmakers clashed over competing substitutes for Senate Bill 161 that would create an energy authority and set criteria for future operations of a large power plant; the chamber circled the latest substitute after extended debate over who bears study and permitting costs and how the authority is constituted.
Senators spent more than an hour debating competing substitutes for Senate Bill 161, a measure that would create an energy authority and set a process for evaluating potential future operations of a large municipal-owned power plant.
Sponsor Senator Owens said the bill was substantially rewritten to remove mandates and create a study-focused authority. “This bill is vastly different than the bill that we've, originally passed to the third,” Owens said, adding that stakeholders asked the sponsor to remove “shalls” and to create criteria for…
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