Senate Environment, Energy & Technology committee advances 11 bills in executive session

The Senate Environment, Energy & Technology Committee met in executive session and moved 11 bills forward to the next stage of consideration, with most receiving a due‑pass recommendation and the procedural notation "passed subject to signatures." The committee began by asking staff to brief each bill and then took sequential votes after a brief caucus.

Key items advanced included: an appliance‑affordability study bill (Senate Bill 6,124) with an amendment excluding consumer electronics from the study; an emerging large energy‑use facilities bill (SB 6,171) addressing data‑center tariffs, reporting and an annual per‑kWh fee (the fee language was the subject of an amendment debate); SB 6,284 establishing risk‑management and disclosure requirements for high‑risk artificial‑intelligence systems and extending the AI Task Force; and SB 5,609 on cultural resource protections under…