SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1235
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATORS BLAND AND COLEMAN.
Read 1st time February 27, 2002, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
4866S.01I
AN ACT
To amend chapter 393, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the public service commission.
Section A. Chapter 393, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 393.143, to read as follows:
393.143. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the commission shall have the authority and discretion for good cause shown, upon notice and after an evidentiary hearing, to direct that sums representing unauthorized use charges, penalties, or refunds from interstate or intrastate pipeline, including interest on such sums, received by a gas corporation, as well as any penalties resulting from the operation of a gas corporation's tariffs, be allocated among ratepayers in such manner as the commission finds to be in the public interest.