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Lawmakers grant waiver so municipal utility can keep current billing domain rather than migrate to .gov
Summary
A committee approved a waiver requested by a municipal utility to avoid converting billing communications to a .gov domain, citing automated billing software compatibility and large customer base; Representative Jack Ladyman explained the difficulty and the committee passed the waiver by voice vote.
Representative Jack Ladyman told the committee a municipal utility sought a waiver from a law requiring municipal government websites to use a .gov domain, explaining the utility uses automated billing systems and converting billing communications to a .gov domain would be expensive and potentially incompatible with existing software.
Ladyman said the law requires municipal government main web pages to use .gov domains but that the utility would maintain its current billing system and asked for an exemption for billing communications. Committee members acknowledged technical limits of billing software and discussed the scale and cost of converting automated billing for large customer bases.
A motion to pass the waiver was made and seconded; the committee approved it by voice vote. The transcript records that the link for a Teams presenter crashed briefly during the item and that Nate Schimmel was expected to join by Teams as a presenter, but that technical difficulties prevented immediate connection.
The committee recorded the waiver as approved; the transcript does not include a roll-call vote or detailed tally.
