ROFRs failed to make legislative deadline in Oklahoma

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Those “Right of First Refusal” efforts in the Oklahoma legislature are dead this session.

A bill that would have allowed “right of first refusal” to utilities involved in new electric transmission projects didn’t even get a hearing last week in a House committee before a deadline.

NonDoc reported SB 1103 was advanced by the Senate Energy and Telecommunications Committee, but only after Senate President Pro Tempore Greg Treat, the author of the measure, amended it by removing the ROFR language.

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