Bills focusing on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and eminent domain will come up before a state House committee this week.
The Utilities Committee meeting scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock will handle a handful of bills by Rep. Trey Caldwell, including one opposed by former Corporation Commissoiner Jim Roth who called HB2747 “wrongheaded.”
As OK Energy Today reported, Roth said Caldwell’s bill would harm economic growth and development in Oklahoma. Rep. Caldwell did not respond to an inquiry about Roth’s challenges. His HB2747 will be the lead bill to be considered when the Utilities Committee meetingns in Room 206 of the Capitol building.
Caldwell’s other bills to be considered are:
HB2751 – Facilities; Corporation Commission; generation facility; competitive bids; independent evaluator; electrical cooperatives; codification; effective date. – Caldwell (Trey)*
HB2752 – Eminent domain; electricity; facilities; private property; certificates; Corporation Commission; effective date. – Caldwell (Trey)*
HB2756 – Facilities; definitions; applications; certificates; information; hearings; notice; meetings; public; plans; approval; rules; codification; emergency. – Caldwell (Trey)*
Rep. Tom Gann, the Inola legislator who recently filed a challenge of the Corporation Commission’s approval last month of a $119.5 million rate hike for Public Service Company of Oklahoma, will present his bill applying to the Commission. He has been at odds over Commissioner Todd Hiett’s continued voting of rate hikes despite the legislator’s contention the commissioner is in violation of state ethics rules because of sexual abuse allegations against him.
HB1102 is Gann’s Corporation Commission Modernization Act of 2025. But it does not include details or explanation of what Rep. Gann is proposing.