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SENATE BILL NO. 1386

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S1386......................................................by STATE AFFAIRS
PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Amends existing law to allow the Public
Utilities Commission to hire three additional nonclassified employees as
regulatory policy strategists who will report directly to the Commission.

02/03    Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/04    Rpt prt - to St Aff
03/02    Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/03    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/05    3rd rdg - PASSED - 30-2-3
      AYES--Boatright, Branch, Bunderson, Burtenshaw, Cameron, Crow,
      Danielson, Darrington, Deide, Frasure, Geddes, Hansen, Ingram,
      Keough, King, Lee, McLaughlin, Noh, Parry, Richardson, Riggs, Risch,
      Sandy, Schroeder, Sorensen, Sweeney, Thorne, Twiggs, Wheeler,
      Whitworth
      NAYS--Hawkins, Stennett
      Absent and excused--Andreason, Dunklin, Ipsen
    Floor Sponsor - Hansen
    Title apvd - to House
03/06    House intro - 1st rdg - to St Aff
03/12    Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/13    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/16    3rd rdg - PASSED - 70-0-0
      AYES -- Alltus, Barraclough, Barrett, Bell, Bieter, Bivens,
      Black(15), Black(23), Boe, Bruneel, Callister, Campbell, Chase,
      Clark, Crane, Crow, Cuddy, Deal, Denney, Ellsworth, Field(13),
      Field(20), Gagner, Geddes, Gould, Hadley, Hansen, Henbest, Hornbeck,
      Jaquet, Jones(9) Jones(22), Jones(20), Judd, Kellogg, Kempton,
      Kendell, Kjellander, Kunz, Lake, Linford, Loertscher, Mader, Marley,
      McKague, Meyer, Miller, Mortensen, Newcomb, Pischner, Pomeroy,
      Reynolds, Richman, Ridinger, Robison, Sali, Schaefer, Stevenson,
      Stoicheff, Stone, Stubbs, Taylor, Tilman, Tippets, Trail, Watson,
      Wheeler, Wood, Zimmermann, Mr. Speaker.
      NAYS -- None
      Absent and excused -- None
    Floor Sponsor - Crane
    Title apvd - to Senate
03/16    To enrol
03/18    Rpt enrol - Pres signed
03/19    Sp signed - to Governor
03/20    Governor signed
         Session Law Chapter 147
         Effective: 03/20/98

Bill Text

S1386


                                                                        
 ||||              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ||||
Fifty-fourth Legislature                 Second Regular Session - 1998
                                                                        

                                      IN THE SENATE

                                   SENATE BILL NO. 1386

                                BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

 1                                        AN ACT
 2    RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION; AMENDING  SECTION  61-206,  IDAHO
 3        CODE,  TO  PROVIDE THAT REGULATORY POLICY STRATEGISTS OF THE PUBLIC UTILI-
 4        TIES COMMISSION SHALL BE NONCLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES AND  REPORT  DIRECTLY  TO
 5        THE COMMISSION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

 6    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:

 7        SECTION  1.  That  Section  61-206, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 8    amended to read as follows:

 9        61-206.  EMPLOYEES.  (1)  The commission shall  have  power  to
10    employ, during its pleasure, such officers, experts, engineers, statisticians,
11    accountants,  inspectors,  clerks  and  employees  as it may deem necessary to
12    carry out the provisions of this act or to perform the duties and exercise the
13    powers conferred by law upon the commission.
14         (2)  In addition to the number of nonclassified  employees  provided
15    by  other provisions of law, the commission shall have the authority to employ
16    not  more  than  three  (3)  nonclassified  employees  as  regulatory   policy
17    strategists reporting directly to the commission. 

18        SECTION  2.  An  emergency  existing  therefor,  which emergency is hereby
19    declared to exist, this act shall be in full force and effect on and after its
20    passage and approval.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact

    





                            STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
    
                                   RS07573
    
    Amends Idaho Code 61-206 to allow up to three policy strategists
    
           of the Public Utilities Commission to be nonclassified 
                                 employees.
    
                                FISCAL IMPACT
    
    There is no fiscal impact to the General Fund. Commission 
    expend tures are paid with appropriations from the public 
    utilities commission fund. This addition would have an impact 
    on the public utilities fund of $173,200 for FY99.
    
    Under current Idaho law, utilities may be assessed a maximum 
    fee of 3/10 of 1% of their gross intrastate utility revenue to 
    operate the Public Utilities Commission. This increase would 
    not cause an
    
            in the maximum assessment level or an increase in 
    utility
    
             CONTACT
             Name:             Tonya Clark
             Agency:Public Utilities Commission
             Phone:                334-0316
    
    Statement of Purpose/Fiscal Impact
    
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