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Read. Follow. Verify.Oklahoma House Bill 1227 requires annual compliance reports from retail electric suppliers extending service to large facilities outside certified territories
Last action · February 4, 2025: Second Reading referred to Rules
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What This Bill Proposed
House Bill 1227 requires retail electric service providers that extend service to facilities of 1,000 kilowatts or larger outside their to submit a comprehensive annual compliance report to the Corporation Commission by January 31, starting November 1, 2025. The measure directs the Commission to promulgate rules detailing the required data and ensures that applicable s are without cross-subsidies.
The measure establishes structured reporting requirements and cost recovery rules for large out-of-territory electric loads, impacting how utilities allocate the expenses of extended service lines and preventing cost shifts to residential rate classes.
- House Bill 1227 modifies Oklahoma statutes governing exclusive territorial rights for retail electric suppliers and how costs are recovered for service extensions to large industrial or commercial loads. context
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.
retail electric suppliers
Retail electric service providers must establish specific cost-of-service rate tariffs and submit annual compliance reports to the Corporation Commission.
residential consumers
The legislation aims to avoid unfairly shifting service extension costs from large out-of-territory loads onto residential rate classes.
Corporation Commission
The Commission is tasked with receiving annual compliance reports and promulgating rules regarding the required data and information.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
3 actions- Feb 4, 2025HouseCommitteeSecond Reading referred to Rules
- Feb 3, 2025HouseAuthored by Representative West (Kevin)
- Feb 3, 2025HouseIntroducedFirst Reading
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Mandatory Annual Compliance Reporting
The bill introduces a mandatory annual reporting mechanism to the Corporation Commission to verify that out-of-territory tariffs are strictly cost-of-service based.
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Sources
www.oklegislature.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 60)
- Controversy20Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz15Current news / social attention level
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