SB 1078

SENATE BILL NO. 1078
A bill to amend 1939 PA 3, entitled
"An act to provide for the regulation and control
of public and certain private utilities and other services affected with a
public interest within this state; to provide for alternative energy suppliers;
to provide for licensing; to include municipally owned utilities and other
providers of energy under certain provisions of this act; to create a public
service commission and to prescribe and define its powers and duties; to
abolish the Michigan public utilities commission and to confer the powers and
duties vested by law on the public service commission; to provide for the
powers and duties of certain state governmental officers and entities; to
provide for the continuance, transfer, and completion of certain matters and
proceedings; to abolish automatic adjustment clauses; to prohibit certain rate
increases without notice and hearing; to qualify residential energy
conservation programs permitted under state law for certain federal exemption;
to create a fund; to encourage the utilization of resource recovery facilities;
to prohibit certain acts and practices of providers of energy; to allow for the
securitization of stranded costs; to reduce rates; to provide for appeals; to
provide appropriations; to declare the effect and purpose of this act; to
prescribe remedies and penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,"
(MCL 460.1 to 460.11) by adding section 6bb.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 6bb. (1) An electric utility
or natural gas utility shall file a report with the commission every year that
contains all of the following for that reporting period:
(a) A list
of contributions to a separate segregated fund established by that utility.
(b) An
itemized list of contributions that a separate segregated fund established by
the utility made to, and expenditures that the separate segregated fund made on
behalf of, any of the following:
(i) Candidate committees.
(ii) Ballot question committees.
(iii) Political party committees.
(iv) Political committees.
(v) Independent expenditure committees.
(vi) Independent committees.
(vii) Other separate segregated funds.
(c) Any
money given to an organization formed under 26 USC 501(c)(4) or 26 USC
501(c)(6), including the amount given and the name of that organization.
(d) Any
money given to an organization formed under 26 USC 527, including the amount
given and the name of that organization.
(e) Any
expenditures made on lobbying.
(f) A list
of any contributions or expenditures described in subdivisions (a) to (e) that
were made by the parent company or an affiliate of the electric utility or
natural gas utility.
(2) The
commission shall post a report received under subsection (1) on its website.
(3) As used
in this section:
(a)
"Ballot question committee" means that term as defined in section 2
of the Michigan campaign finance act, 1976 PA 388, MCL 169.202.
(b)
"Candidate committee" means that term as defined in section 3 of the
Michigan campaign finance act, 1976 PA 388, MCL 169.203.
(c)
"Contribution" means that term as defined in section 4 of the
Michigan campaign finance act, 1976 PA 388, MCL 169.204.
(d)
"Independent committee" means that term as defined in section 8 of
the Michigan campaign finance act, 1976 PA 388, MCL 169.208.
(e)
"Independent expenditure committee" means that term as defined in
section 9 of the Michigan campaign finance act, 1976 PA 388, MCL 169.209.
(f) "Lobbying"
means that term as defined in section 5 of 1978 PA 472, MCL 4.415.
(g)
"Political committee" means that term as defined in section 11 of the
Michigan campaign finance act, 1976 PA 388, MCL 169.211.
(h)
"Political party committee" means that term as defined in section 11
of the Michigan campaign finance act, 1976 PA 388, MCL 169.211.