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Utah House passes bill limiting local bans on energy choices; debate centers on local control and regulated utilities
Summary
House Bill 17, sponsored by Representative Steve Handy, passed after floor debate in which proponents said the bill preserves customer choice and opponents warned it would reduce municipal authority to set energy or environmental standards and questioned whether customers truly have market choices under regulated utility monopolies.
Representative Steve Handy, sponsor of House Bill 17, described the bill as a "preventative measure" to preserve customers' ability to choose energy sources and to rely on market‑based decisions rather than local ordinances that could effectively ban particular energy types. "The market should decide, not government at any level," Handy said, urging that municipalities not be allowed to enact ordinances that have the effect of prohibiting customer choice.
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