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SSB 3128Died when the session ended · February 6, 2020

SSB 3128

Topics:Business & economyEnergy & utilities

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedFebruary 6, 2020
  2. Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 6, 2020
  3. Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
  4. Next: Passes the Senate
  5. Next: House committee
  6. Next: Passes the House
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill relates to renewable energy projects, including the authority of counties and the utilities board within the utilities division of the department of commerce to regulate renewable energy projects.1, having a total capacity of at least megawatts of electricity.1 to mean the construction or installation in the same geographic area related to the collection and conversion of wind or incident solar radiation into energy to generate electricity irrespective of the power capacity of any connected common gathering line.

Read the full explanation

The bill provides that a project for which the generated electricity is planned to be primarily consumed on or immediately adjacent to the property is not a renewable energy project.1 to include a renewable energy project. As a result, the construction of a renewable energy project shall be subject to the certification requirements contained in Code chapter 476A.1 apply to a facility that is installed or constructed, or a facility for which all real property interests have been obtained, on or after July 1, 2020.

Full bill text1

Senate subcommittee

Named February 6, 2020. Meeting: Thursday, February 13 · 11:30 AM · RM G17.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§331.304A§476A.1

How the Code works2

Lobbying

0 for · 6 against · 14 undecided · Who →