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3/31/2025
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MEDIA ADVISORY: House Committee on Corporations to hear legislation related to nuclear power, old utility poles
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STATE HOUSE — The House Committee on Corporations will meet Tuesday to hear testimony on several pieces of legislation, including a measure on nuclear power, and a bill on removing old utility poles.
The committee will meet Tuesday, April 1, at the rise of the House (about 5 p.m.) in Room 101 on the first floor of the State House.
The panel will hear testimony on a bill (2025-H 5575) introduced by Committee Chairman Joseph J. Solomon Jr. (D-Dist. 22, Warwick) that would allow a public utility company that provides electric and gas distribution to participate in projects that would allow for the reliable transmission of nuclear power. It would allow the utility to procure nuclear power and enter into long-term contracts for nuclear power.
The committee will also hear a bill (2025-H 5574) introduced by Chairman Solomon that would provide a process for the removal of double poles (utility poles that have been cut and attached to existing poles). The owner of the pole would be required to remove the pole within 30 days or face fines.
The committee will also hear several other bills, including:
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2025-H 5105 —This bill, introduced by Rep. John J. Lombardi (D-Dist. 8, Providence), would enable the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) to work with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) to allow commuter rail passes to be used as dual passes for both RIPTA and MBTA.
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2025-H 5417 — This bill, introduced by Rep. George Nardone (R-Dist. 28, Coventry), would provide that water utility companies be responsible for all costs associated with maintenance, operation and delivery of water pumping stations to individual parcels of land and schools with no pumping stations on the property.
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2025-H 5573 — This bill, introduced by Chairman Solomon, would require applications for energy facilities to take into consideration the 2021 Act on Climate and how the facility may advance or delay the greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
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2025-H 5576 —This bill, introduced by Rep. Terri Cortvriend (D-Dist. 72, Portsmouth, Middletown), would establish thermal energy networks infrastructure by any public utility company that provides electric/natural gas distribution to maximize cost-effective investments deemed in the public interest by the Public Utilities Commission.
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2025-H 5578 — This bill, introduced by Majority Whip Katherine S. Kazarian (D-Dist. 63, East Providence, Pawtucket), would prohibit public utilities from raising the cost for access to the internet for senior citizens.
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2025-H 5579 — This bill, introduced by Rep. Christopher G. Paplauskas (R-Dist. 15, Cranston), would require the Public Utilities Commission to produce a report each January containing an analysis of the electric grid and its ability to supply the electricity needs to power cars, buildings and heat homes within the state.
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2025-H 5580 — This bill, introduced by Rep. Brandon Potter (D-Dist. 16, Cranston), would prohibit utility companies from limiting the eligibility of a net metering site based on prior consumption and requires excess energy not consumed under the net metering system to be credited to the consumer.
The meeting will be live streamed at capitoltvri.cablecast.tv.
For more information, contact:
Daniel Trafford, Publicist
State House Room 20
Providence, RI 02903
(401)222-1922
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