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Vermont bill authorizes Clean Heat Standard rules with a ten-cent per gallon fuel price cap

Original title: An act relating to authorizing the Clean Heat Standard rules

Last action · February 13, 2025: Read first time and referred to the Committee on Energy and Digital InfrastructureSponsor: Michael Mrowicki

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What This Bill Would Do

This bill authorizes the adoption of rules containing a price cap that limits heating fuel price increases to no more than $0.10 per gallon for the first five years of the program.

Why it matters

Heating fuel distributors and residents purchasing fossil heating fuels in Vermont face a statutorily limited cost increase of up to ten cents per gallon on delivered fuels during the program's initial five-year period.

Who It Would Affect

Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.

Directly affected

Vermont residents

Delivered costs for fossil heating fuels are subject to a price cap limitation of $0.10 per gallon for the first five years of the program.

Directly affected

heating fuel distributors

Operating rules under the Clean Heat Standard program are authorized, incorporating a credit price cap that restricts fuel price increases.

Key Facts

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does this bill authorize?
This bill authorizes the adoption of rules with a specific price cap on .
How much can the cost of fossil heating fuels increase under this bill?
The price cap ensures that the cost of the program will not raise the delivered cost of fossil heating fuels by more than $0.10 per gallon for the first five years.

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Where This Stands

Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.

Procedural history

1 action
  1. Feb 13, 2025HouseIntroduced
    Read first time and referred to the Committee on Energy and Digital Infrastructure

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Connected Entities

Michael Mrowicki, State of Vermont, General Assembly
PersonMichael Mrowicki“Representative introducing the bill”Map →
locationState of Vermont“Jurisdiction where the bill is introduced”Map →
OrganizationGeneral Assembly“Vermont legislative body enacting laws”Map →

Sources

Open source document

legislature.vermont.gov

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