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SSB 1126
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 1, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 1, 2021
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 24, 2021
- Skipped: Passes the SenateContinued as SF 455
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became SF 455 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 455 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Cities and counties cannot pass rules that stop people or businesses from getting natural gas or propane. This law prevents local governments from blocking customers from buying these services or using specific gas providers.1
Read the official explanation
This bill prohibits a county or city from adopting, enforcing, or otherwise administering an ordinance, motion, resolution, or amendment, or using other means, to restrict, impede, regulate, or prohibit (1) the provision of natural gas service by a public utility, a competitive natural gas provider, a retail propane marketer, or a retail propane dispenser to a person, business, municipality, or other wholesale or retail customer within or outside the county or city, and (2) the purchase of natural gas or propane from a competitive natural gas provider, a retail propane marketer, or a retail propane dispenser, or the receipt of natural gas or propane service from a public utility, by a person, business, municipality, or other wholesale or retail customer within or outside the county or city.
Changed since by amendments S-3100, H-1181; see Amendments.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 10, 2021. On February 18, 2021 it recommended passage.
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Lobbying
12 for · 10 against · 14 undecided · Who →
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