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SENATE BILL 37
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SB 682/24 – EEE (PRE–FILED) CF HB 121
By: Senator Hester Senators Hester, Attar, Augustine, Brooks, Kagan, Simonaire,
and M. Washington
Requested: November 1, 2024
Introduced and read first time: January 8, 2025
Assigned to: Education, Energy, and the Environment
Committee Report: Favorable with amendments
Senate action: Adopted
Read second time: February 11, 2025
CHAPTER ______
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 State 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
2 SENATE BILL 37
(A) (1) IN THIS SECTION THE F OLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANINGS 1
INDICATED. 2
(2) “AFFILIATE” HAS THE MEANING STAT ED IN § 7–501 OF THIS 3
TITLE. 4
(3) “MEETING” MEANS ANY COMMITTEE , USER GROUP, TASK FORCE, 5
OR OTHER PART OF THE REGIONAL TRANSMISSIO N ORGANIZATION IN WH ICH VOTES 6
ARE TAKEN. 7
(4) “RECORDED VOTE ” MEANS A VOTE THAT IS TABULATED, EITHER 8
INDIVIDUALLY OR AS P ART OF A SECTOR , FOR ANY PURPOSE AT A MEETING, 9
REGARDLESS OF : 10
(I) WHETHER THE VOTE REP RESENTS A FINAL POSI TION OF 11
ANY PERSON CASTING T HE VOTE; OR 12
(II) THE DECISION–MAKING AUTHORITY OF THOSE VOTING . 13
(5) “REGIONAL TRANSMISSION ORGANIZATION ” MEANS AN ENTITY 14
THAT QUALIFIES AS A REGIONAL TRANSMISSIO N ORGANIZATION UNDER 18 C.F.R. § 15
35.34. 16
(B) THIS SECTION DOES NOT APPLY TO A MUNIC IPAL ELECTRIC UTILIT Y. 17
(C) (1) ON OR BEFORE FEBRUARY 1 EACH YEAR , EACH ELECTRIC 18
COMPANY SHALL SUBMIT TO THE COMMISSION A REPORT O N EACH RECORDED VOTE 19
CAST BY THE ELECTRIC COMPANY OR , SUBJECT TO PARAGRAPH (2) OF THIS 20
SUBSECTION, AN A STATE AFFILIATE OF THE ELE CTRIC COMPANY AT A M EETING OF 21
A REGIONAL TRANSMISS ION ORGANIZATION DUR ING THE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING 22
CALENDAR YEAR . 23
(2) THE REPORT SHALL INCL UDE: 24
(I) ALL RECORDED VOTES C AST BY THE ELECTRIC COMPANY, 25
REGARDLESS OF WHETHE R THE VOTE IS OTHERWISE DI SCLOSED; AND 26
(II) ALL VOTES CAST BY AN A STATE AFFILIATE OF THE 27
ELECTRIC COMPANY IF THE ELECTRIC COMPANY ITSELF DOES NOT VOTE ON THE 28
MATTER. 29
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 30
October 1, 2025. 31
SENATE BILL 37 3
Approved:
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Governor.
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President of the Senate.
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Speaker of the House of Delegates.