Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Energy and Technology Committee on February 21, 2003. The 2003 session has ended.
2003 Regular Session
House Bill 6398
AN ACT CONCERNING UTILITY MERGERS.
What it does
The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.
To clarify that the Department of Public Utility Control's public interest standard of review applies to transactions involving the acquisition of a holding company, to provide the department with adequate authority to ensure that merger proposals it reviews are beneficial to the state and to the ratepayers involved, to allow the department, as a condition to approving a proposed merger, to require rate reductions or earning-sharing mechanisms to capture potential savings for ratepayers from a merger, and to allow the department, to consider the effect of a merger approval on the location and accessibility of management and operations and on the proportion and number of state resident employees for all type of merger proposals, not just that of a telephone company.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
Its course
February 5 to February 21, 2003, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action2 actions on 2 days
In the House of RepresentativesFeb 5 to Feb 21 · stopped16 days
Energy and Technology CommitteeFeb 5 to Feb 21 · stopped16 days
Text
Each version as the General Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.
In the House of Representatives Feb 5 – Feb 21
- Feb 5Introduced and sent to Energy and Technology Committee
- Feb 21Heard in Energy and Technology Committee
All 2 actions, as published
- Feb 5REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses
- Feb 21PUBLIC HEARINGBoth houses