Session of 1999
House Concurrent Resolution No. 5028
By Representative Light
(By Request)
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10 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging that no legislation be en-
11 acted to deregulate the retail electric industry unless further study and
12 deliberation conclude that deregulation will benefit all consumers.
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14 WHEREAS, The Docking Institute of Public Affairs of Fort Hays
15 State University conducted an independent study of the effects of restruc-
16 turing the electric utility industry to deregulate retail sales of electricity
17 ("retail wheeling") and the study encompassed service territories of elec-
18 tric cooperatives in all areas of the state; and
19 WHEREAS, The study found that deregulation of retail electric sales
20 could cause typical electric bills of residential customers to nearly double;
21 and
22 WHEREAS, The study showed a potential loss of hundreds of jobs in
23 service territories of Kansas electric cooperatives and major reductions in
24 income as the result of retail wheeling; and
25 WHEREAS, The study also concluded that retail wheeling could cause
26 rural areas to lose millions of dollars in tax revenues; and
27 WHEREAS, Kansas is one of 24 states that have a Silver Haired Leg-
28 islature and the Kansas Silver Haired Legislature conducted its 16th An-
29 nual Session in October, 1998; and
30 WHEREAS, The Kansas Silver Haired Legislature adopted SHL Res-
31 olution No. 1511 which urged that no legislation be enacted to deregulate
32 the retail electric industry: Now, therefore,
33 Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Kansas,
34 the Senate concurring therein: That no legislation be enacted to dereg-
35 ulate the retail electric industry in this state until further study and de-
36 liberation conclude that deregulation will benefit all consumers.
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