Just as efforts to produce a Right of First Refusal bill in the Oklahoma legislature have faced opposition, so has the effort of Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds in the Iowa legislature.
Her 53-page bill, proposed in her Condition of the State address to the Iowa Legislature on Jan. 14, has seen little progress. The ROFR aspect of the bill is reported to be the most controversial part that apparently drew raised eyebrows among legislators. It would give utiities first rights to build transmission projects and at the same time would also encourage nuclear growth in the state.
Under her bill, incumbent electric transmission companies in the state would get the first opportunity to construct any new transmission line project. It’s a proposal that has lingered for three years in the Oklahoma legislature where some legislators have worked to appease opponents to ROFR.
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