HB 2232
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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Fifty-fifth Legislature
Second Regular Session
HB 2232: nonprofit generation and transmission cooperatives
Sponsor: Representative Griffin, LD 14
Committee on Natural Resources, Energy & Water
Overview
Exempts from the Arizona Corporation Commission's annual assessment a generation and
transmission cooperative's gross intrastate revenues from selling electricity to another electric
utility subject to the same annual assessment.
History
To finance its activities, the Arizona Corporation Commission annually assesses most public
service corporations (A.R.S. § 40-401). These corporations include those that furnish electricity
for light, fuel or power such as electric cooperatives (Constitution of Arizona, Article XV, § 2).
Statute recognizes two different types of cooperatives:
1) Electric cooperatives, which can purchase, acquire, transmit, distribute, and sell electricity.
Crucially, these cooperatives cannot generate electricity but can become members of
other cooperatives (A.R.S. § 10-2057); and
2) Generation and transmission cooperatives, which generate, acquire, sell and transmit
electric energy to other entities, including electric utilities and other electric cooperatives
(A.R.S. § 10-2127). Membership in these cooperatives is limited to electric utilities and
other persons as provided by the cooperative's bylaws (A.R.S. § 10-2128).
Provisions
1. Exempts from the Arizona Corporation Commission's annual assessment a generation and
transmission cooperative's gross intrastate revenues from selling electricity to another electric
utility subject to the same annual assessment.
☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal Note