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Public Utility Commission requests fixes to nine outdated references in transportation statutes
Summary
Greg Favor of the Public Utility Commission asked the Senate Transportation Committee to correct nine typographic references in Titles 24 and 25 so the statutes properly name the Transportation Board instead of older entities; he will submit a list to the committee assistant for drafting.
Greg Favor, who identified himself as a staffer at the Public Utility Commission, told the Senate Transportation Committee the agency found nine instances in Titles 24 and 25 where older names ("public service board" or "public utility commission") were not updated to refer to the Transportation Board.
"All we're asking is that the statute be corrected to correctly reflect that it's the transportation board who's in charge of this rather than the public utility commission," Favor said, and offered to send the committee assistant a list of the specific changes.
Committee members treated the request as technical and noncontroversial. One member who said she had served on the Transportation Board said the items were "really nonsubstantive," and the chair indicated staff counsel (Damian Leonard) would be kept informed to shepherd the corrections. Favor said the missed references date back to 1989 and appear in very old statutory language concerning historic railroad and log-drive provisions.
The committee did not vote on the changes during the hearing; Favor said he had attempted the correction in the prior legislative session and the language had been stripped from a House bill, so he had returned to the Senate in hopes of getting the edits placed into law this year.
