House Bill 9569

    Florida House of Representatives - 1998                HR 9569

        By the Committee on Utilities & Communications and
    Representative Feeney





  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution directing the appointment of an

  3         interim study subcommittee to review municipal

  4         utility services and facilities of certain

  5         municipal utilities and to report to the House

  6         of Representatives.

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  8  Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of

  9  Florida:

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11         That the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall

12  direct the Chair of the House Committee on Utilities and

13  Communications to appoint an interim subcommittee to study the

14  expansion of the Florida Public Service Commission's

15  jurisdiction to include oversight of municipal utilities that

16  provide extraterritorial service to ratepayers residing

17  outside municipal boundaries and to report the subcommittee's

18  recommendations to the House of Representatives at the next

19  regular session of the Legislature. The study shall include,

20  but not be limited to, the tax implications for ratepayers

21  within a municipality and ratepayers outside a municipality

22  and the equality of tax benefits for these classes of

23  ratepayers; bond issues; unrelated municipal services funded

24  by water and sewer rates; and reasonable compensation to an

25  extraterritorial service area in which a municipal utility has

26  its facilities located on tax-exempt property.  The study

27  shall also include issues regarding the establishment of a

28  nonpartisan governing board, elected by the ratepayers of a

29  utility, to oversee any proposed changes by the city to water

30  and sewer rates charged to extraterritorial ratepayers, and

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  1  the type of distribution to extraterritorial ratepayers from

  2  net earnings on sales outside the municipal boundaries.

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