2017 SB 169 First Right to Build Transmission Facilities
- CVNM Position:
- Oppose
- Year:
- 2017
- Sponsors:
-
Stuart Ingle
- Topics:
- Energy & Climate Change
- Legislative Info:
- SB 169 on nmlegis.gov »
Description
This bill would have given public utilities and generation and transmission cooperatives the first right to construct, own and maintain transmission facilities in a regional transmission organization. This bill was intended to counter a specific federal regulation designed to foster competition in the transmission market.
Outcome
SB 169 died in the Senate Conservation Committee.
How Legislators Voted on SB 169
- = Pro Conservation Vote
- = Anti Conservation Vote
- A = Absent
- E = Excused
- R = Recused
- W = Abstain
| Legislator | Party | District | Office | Conservation Vote |
Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cervantes, Joseph (D) | D | 31 | Senator | 2017 | |
| Griggs, Ron (R) | R | 34 | Senator | 2017 | |
| Ingle, Stuart (R) | R | 27 | Senator | 2017 | |
| Martinez, Richard C. (D) | D | 5 | Senator | 2017 | |
| McSorley, Cisco (D) | D | 16 | Senator | 2017 | |
| Payne, William H. (R) | R | 20 | Senator | 2017 | |
| Soules, William P. (D) | D | 37 | Senator | 2017 | |
| Stefanics, Elizabeth "Liz" (D) | D | 39 | Senator | 2017 | |
| Wirth, Peter (D) | D | 25 | Senator | 2017 | |
| Woods, Pat (R) | R | 7 | Senator | 2017 |