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Read. Follow. Verify.Minnesota House Bill 252 Expands Regulatory Exemption Eligibility for Small Natural Gas Utilities
Last action · March 13, 2025: Second readingSponsor: Spencer Igo
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What This Bill Proposed
Minnesota Public Utilities; small natural gas utilities eligibility amended to be exempt from regulation.
Changes regulatory oversight criteria for small natural gas providers, potentially altering how rates and service standards are overseen for thousands of customers across local municipalities.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
small natural gas utilities
Utility eligibility thresholds for exemption from Minnesota Public Utilities Commission regulation are modified.
natural gas customers
Regulatory oversight and tariff rate rules for service providers change based on municipal exemptions.
Key Facts
- Raises the per-municipality customer limit from 650 or fewer to 2,500 or fewer for small natural gas utilities applying for an exemption from regulation.
- Maintains an overall cap of 5,000 total customers for eligible public utilities.
- Requires that the same applicable tariff rates apply to customers located outside a municipality's corporate limits as apply to customers within the corporate limits.
- Mandates that exempt utilities adopt the commission's policies and procedures governing disconnection during cold weather and annually submit municipally approved rates.
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- Defines 'system' as physically connected infrastructure owned and operated by a public utility that receives wholesale gas and delivers it to customers without physical connection to another system owned by the same utility.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are exempt utilities still required to follow cold weather disconnection rules?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · on the House floor.
Procedural history
3 actions- Mar 13, 2025HouseFloorSecond reading
- Mar 13, 2025HouseCommittee report, to adopt
- Feb 10, 2025HouseIntroducedIntroduction and first reading, referred to Energy Finance and Policy
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 50)
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz20Current news / social attention level
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