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Committee approves targeted changes to let water utilities track chemical and power costs
Summary
Senate Bill 241 would permit limited pass-through recovery for chemical and power costs in water/wastewater utilities (a tracker limited to these two categories), raise the conservancy-district withdrawal threshold from 2,000 to 3,000 customers, and add narrow economic-development language; committee passed the bill as amended 12-0.
Sen. Cook told the committee that Senate Bill 241 is a targeted adjustment to the Service Enhancement Improvement (SEI) statute that would let water and wastewater utilities recover specific O&M costs outside their control—only chemical and power costs—through a true pass-through mechanism that credits customers if costs fall and allows recovery if costs rise. "This is a narrowly tailored update to SEI, allowing water and wastewater utilities to true up those specific O and M…
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