LRB-0574/1
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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
November 9, 2023 - Introduced by Senators Cowles and Stroebel, cosponsored by
Representatives Gustafson, Neylon, Tittl, Baldeh, Green, Krug, Murphy,
O'Connor, Rettinger, Rozar, Spiros and Tranel. Referred to Committee on
Utilities and Technology.
SB649,1,3
1An Act to amend 196.03 (4) of the statutes;
relating to: the amount certain
2public utilities may recover in rates relating to amounts assessed by the Public
3Service Commission.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill lowers the total amount that certain public utilities can recover in
rates for PSC proceeding expenditures.
Under current law, a public utility, sewerage system, or power district
(collectively, utility) may not raise the rates that it charges to customers without first
applying to the PSC for approval of the change. The PSC may assess to utilities
certain amounts corresponding to the PSC's expenditures in carrying out its duties
relating to utilities. Generally under current law, a public utility that supplies gas
or electricity to its customers and that is not a city, town, or village may recover in
rates any expenditure for costs in a proceeding before the PSC up to four times the
total amount assessed to that public utility by the PSC. This bill reduces this limit
to the total amount assessed to that public utility by the PSC.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SB649,1
4Section
1. 196.03 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB649,2,7
1196.03
(4) Any public utility
which that is not a city, town
, or village and
which 2that supplies gas or electricity to its customers may not recover in rates set by the
3commission from any customer for any expenditure for costs in a proceeding before
4the commission
which that exceed
4 times the total amount assessed to the utility
5under s. 196.85 (1) and (2) unless the object of the expenditure has been ordered by
6the commission. The commission, by rule, shall establish procedures whereby a
7public utility may recover its expenditures under this subsection.
