Electric Supply and Transmission Act
Latest action · Dec 19, 2001 Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedDec 5, 2001
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Repeals the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935.
Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to declare that upon enactment of this Act no electric utility shall be required to purchase or sell electric energy or capacity pursuant to its provisions governing cogeneration and small power production (prospective repeal).
Repeals Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) oversight of electric utility transactions involving facilities disposition, consolidations, or purchases, including securities acquisitions.
Sets forth guidelines for open access transmission under FERC jurisdiction, including certain wholesale stranded cost recovery and retail wheeling in retail competition States.
Prescribes parameters for mandatory regional transmission organizations under FERC jurisdiction (RTOs).
Repeals: (1) regulations governing interconnection or wheeling orders that result in electric power sales or delivery outside the Tennessee Valley Region; and (2) equitability guidelines governing transmission within the Tennessee Valley Region.
Amends the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 to repeal restrictions on the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to sell or deliver power beyond the area for which it was the primary source of power on July 1, 1957.
Restricts TVA power sales.
Places the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) within RTO jurisdiction and the Bonneville Transmission System within FPA jurisdiction.
Bars BPA from selling electric energy or capacity to specified new retail electric consumers (prospective phase-out of BPA).
Restricts wholesale power sales by Federal Power Marketing Administrations (FPMAs). Mandates that FPMA rates and charges be the lowest possible to recover all costs incurred for the production of electric energy sold by them. Places FPMA transmission systems under FERC jurisdiction.
Makes it unlawful for any person to: (1) change the retail electric supplier without the consumer's consent; or (2) charge a retail electric consumer for electric energy or related services (cramming) unless expressly authorized by law or by the consumer's agreement to purchase such energy or services. Authorizes the Federal Trade Commission to promulgate rules governing these matters as well as retail electric consumer privacy.
Permits electric energy purchases by retail electric consumers on an aggregate basis.
Expresses the sense of Congress in favor of universal and affordable retail electric energy service.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Dec 5, 2001 |
| Energy Subcommittee | Referred Dec 10, 2001Hearings Dec 13, 2001 | |
| House | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | Referred Dec 5, 2001 |
| Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee | Referred Dec 6, 2001 | |
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Dec 5, 2001 |
| Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee | Referred Dec 19, 2001 |
Actions 8
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 19, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
- Dec 19, 2001Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
- Dec 13, 2001Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- Dec 12, 2001Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- Dec 10, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
- Dec 6, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
- Dec 5, 2001Introduced in House
- Dec 5, 2001Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 3
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 107-82 | THE EFFECT OF THE BANKRUPTCY OF ENRON ON THE FUNCTIONING OF ENERGY MARKETS154 pages | Energy and Commerce Committee | Feb 13, 2002 |
| Serial No. 107-83 | LESSONS LEARNED FROM ENRON'S COLLAPSE: AUDITING THE ACCOUNTING INDUSTRY211 pages | Energy and Commerce Committee | Feb 6, 2002 |
| Serial No. 107-81 | THE ELECTRIC SUPPLY AND TRANSMISSION ACT OF 2001221 pages | Energy and Commerce Committee | Dec 12, 2001–Dec 13, 2001 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To benefit consumers and enhance the Nation's energy security by removing barriers to the development of competitive markets for electric power, providing for the reliability and increased capacity of the Nation's electric transmission networks, promoting the use of renewable and alternative sources of electric power generation, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Electric Supply and Transmission Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.
- Accounting
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Affiliated corporations
- Alternative energy sources
- Antitrust law
- Biomass energy
- Building construction
- Business income tax
- Business records
- Canada
- Capital investments
- Civil actions and liability
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Commerce
- Commercial arbitration
- Competition
- Confidential communications
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer complaints
- Consumer cooperatives
- Consumer protection
- Contracts
- Corporate debt
- Corporate finance
- Cost effectiveness
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Damages
- Department of Energy
- Depreciation and amortization
- Electric power distribution
- Electric power plant sites
- Electric power production
- Electric power transmission
- Electric utilities
- Electric utility rates
- Energy
- Energy assistance for the poor
- Energy conservation
- Energy demand
- Energy efficiency
- Energy facilities
- Energy supplies
- Environmental Protection
- Evidence (Law)
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Federal preemption
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fines (Penalties)
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Fuel cells
- Gas companies
- Gas pipelines
- Government corporations
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Governmental investigations
- Grievance procedures
- Holding companies
- Housing and Community Development
- Hydroelectric power
- Income tax
- Independent regulatory commissions
- Industrial arbitration
- Information technology
- Infrastructure
- Judicial review of administrative acts
- Latin America
- Law
- Legal fees
- Liability (Law)
- Licenses
- Local laws
- Mexico
- Northwestern States
- Nuclear power plants
- Parties to actions
- Photovoltaic power systems
- Poor
- Power marketing administrations
- Public debt
- Public interest
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Public utilities
- Regional planning
- Renewable natural resources
- Restrictive trade practices
- Retail trade
- Right of privacy
- Right-of-way
- Rural electrification
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Solar energy
- State laws
- Tax deductions
- Technological innovations
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- Trade agreements
- Transportation and Public Works
- Water Resources Development
- Wholesale trade
- Wind power
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 5, 2001Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
