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CS/HB 1075 (Sirois/Oliver) will be considered by the House Commerce Committee today, February 24, at 3:00 p.m. The bill mandates that municipal utilities provide extraterritorial services under certain conditions.
Amendment (Barcode 511053) has been filed to the bill. The amendment would do the following:
I. Forces a utility that provides extraterritorial water or wastewater service to enter an interlocal agreement with a county in which it provides such service by July 2027 (or 12 months after an economic development zone is designated) if the county has designated an economic development zone; and the zone is wholly or partially within the utility service area.
The Agreement must address the provision of water and wastewater service to the entire economic development zone and must:
a) Define infrastructure service and maintenance responsibilities
b) Establish responsibilities for capacity expansion and cost allocation
c) Timelines for delivering the service
d) Dispute resolution to prevent unreasonable delay in providing the service
II. Forces any city (including non-utility cities) to approve any upgrade to a wastewater utility located on property within the city that is owned by another political subdivision and the wastewater facility is either owned by that political subdivision or by a private utility.
The city is prohibited from applying a comprehensive plan or regulation to the upgrade project that is more burdensome or restrictive than the comp plan or regulations that applied at the time the infrastructure was originally installed.
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