District of Columbia legislation · 26th Council
District of Columbia B596: Utility Rates and Ratemaking Amendment Act of 2026
Status: In committee, July 2, 2026
As introduced, Bill 26-596 would require the Public Service Commission to approve multiyear rate plans only if the plans are based on historic test years and do not include reconciliation. It would specify how excess return on equity will be refunded to customers and also requires the Public Service Commission to approve gas infrastructure projects only if the company demonstrates customer benefit and that the company analyzed cost-effective alternatives.
What the bill says
A bill ___________ IN THE COUNCIL OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA _________________ To amend the Public Utilities Act of 1989 to require the Public Service Commission to approve multiyear rate plans only if the plans are based on historic test years and do not include reconciliation, specifies how excess return on equity will be refunded to customers, and clearly demonstrates customer benefit, and to require the Public Service Commission to approve gas infrastructure projects only if the company clearly demonstrates customer benefit and that the company analyzed cost-effective alternatives, and to dir…
From the introduced text, February 13, 2026:
A BILL ___________ IN THE COUNCIL OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA _________________ To amend the Public Utilities Act of 1989 to require the Public Service Commission to approve multiyear rate plans only if the plans are based on historic test years and do not include reconciliation, specifies how excess return on equity will be refunded to customers, and clearly demonstrates customer benefit, and to require the Public Service Commission to approve gas infrastructure projects only if the company clearly demonstrates customer benefit and that the company analyzed cost-effective alternatives, and to direct the Public Service Commission to take into account any benefits the company realizes from infrastructure project surcharges in future rate cases. BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this act may be cited as the "Utility Rates and Ratemaking Amendment Act of 2026". Sec. 2. Paragraph 2 of section 8 of Chapter 150 of An Act Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June Thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes, approved March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. 977; D.C. Code §34-1101), is amended as follows: (a) A new section 923 is added to read as follows: "Sec. 923. Rates and Ratemaking. "(a) Unless otherwise authorized by law, the Commission may approve the …