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Lawmakers seek fix after budget language clash over renewable energy fund; legal challenge flagged
Summary
Senate Bill 599 would resolve a conflict between two recent laws over transfers from the Renewable Energy Fund to the general fund; conservation advocates warned the transfers may be unconstitutional, and the Department of Energy confirmed $18 million was swept under earlier budget language.
Senate Bill 599 was introduced to correct a legislative conflict that left the state budgeted to transfer some uncommitted Renewable Energy Fund monies to the general fund but later-enacted language effectively restored the fund’s original purpose.
Senator Howard Pearl told the committee that House Bill 2 directed the Department of Energy to transfer up to $1 million annually of uncommitted Renewable Energy Fund money to the general fund for two…
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