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SENATE BILL 37
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SB 682/24 – EEE (PRE–FILED) CF HB 121
By: Senator Hester
Requested: November 1, 2024
Introduced and read first time: January 8, 2025
Assigned to: Education, Energy, and the Environment
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning 1
Electric Companies – Regional Transmission Organizations – Report 2
(Utility Transparency and Accountability Act) 3
FOR the purpose of requiring a certain electric company to submit an annual report to the 4
Public Service Commission regarding each recorded vote cast by the electric company 5
and any affiliate of the electric company at a meeting of a regional transmission 6
organization; and generally relating to electric companies and regional transmission 7
organizations. 8
BY adding to 9
Article – Public Utilities 10
Section 7–108 11
Annotated Code of Maryland 12
(2020 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 13
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 14
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 15
Article – Public Utilities 16
7–108. 17
(A) (1) IN THIS SECTION THE F OLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANINGS 18
INDICATED. 19
(2) “AFFILIATE” HAS THE MEANING STAT ED IN § 7–501 OF THIS 20
TITLE. 21
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(3) “MEETING” MEANS ANY COMMITTEE , USER GROUP, TASK FORCE, 1
OR OTHER PART OF THE REGIONAL TRANSMISSIO N ORGANIZATION IN WH ICH VOTES 2
ARE TAKEN. 3
(4) “RECORDED VOTE ” MEANS A VOTE THAT IS TABULATED, EITHER 4
INDIVIDUALLY OR AS P ART OF A SECTOR , FOR ANY PURPOSE AT A MEETING, 5
REGARDLESS OF : 6
(I) WHETHER THE VOTE REP RESENTS A FINAL POSI TION OF 7
ANY PERSON CASTING T HE VOTE; OR 8
(II) THE DECISION–MAKING AUTHORITY OF THOSE VOTING . 9
(5) “REGIONAL TRANSMISSION ORGANIZATION ” MEANS AN ENTITY 10
THAT QUALIFIES AS A REGIONAL TRANSMISSIO N ORGANIZATION UND ER 18 C.F.R. § 11
35.34. 12
(B) THIS SECTION DOES NOT APPLY TO A MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC UTILITY . 13
(C) (1) ON OR BEFORE FEBRUARY 1 EACH YEAR , EACH ELECTRIC 14
COMPANY SHALL SUBMIT TO THE COMMISSION A REPORT O N EACH RECORDED VOTE 15
CAST BY THE ELECTRIC COMPANY OR , SUBJECT TO PARAGRAPH (2) OF THIS 16
SUBSECTION, AN AFFILIATE OF THE ELECTRIC COMPANY AT A MEETING OF A 17
REGIONAL TRANSMISSIO N ORGANIZATION DURIN G THE IMMEDIATELY PR ECEDING 18
CALENDAR YEAR . 19
(2) THE REPORT SHALL INCL UDE: 20
(I) ALL RECORDED VOTES C AST BY THE E LECTRIC COMPANY , 21
REGARDLESS OF WHETHE R THE VOTE IS OTHERW ISE DISCLOSED; AND 22
(II) ALL VOTES CAST BY AN AFFILIATE OF THE ELE CTRIC 23
COMPANY IF THE ELECT RIC COMPANY ITSELF D OES NOT VOTE ON THE MATTER. 24
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act sh all take effect 25
October 1, 2025. 26