Provides that the Indiana department of transportation may issue an overweight permit for transporting overweight vehicles and loads carrying resources to and from an industry that is critical to Indiana's economy on certain highways in the state highway system. Makes a conforming amendment.
Provides that in acting upon a petition for public convenience and necessity for the construction, purchase, or lease of an electric generation facility, the utility regulatory commission (IURC) shall consider the following: (1) The amount, ownership, current and potential uses, and current and potential assessed value of any land required for the facility. (2) The outstanding costs associated with any of the applicant's existing facilities or infrastructure that will be retired or replaced, in whole or in part, in connection with the facility. Requires the IURC to adopt rules not later than July 1, 2020, to implement a power charge indifference adjustment (PCIA) with respect to a reduced load customer of an electric utility. Defines a "reduced load customer" of an electric utility as a customer with respect to whom the amount of electricity or retail electric service delivered by the electric utility is reduced because of: (1) the customer's use of a cogeneration facility; or (2) the termination of a requirements contract or another contract under which the customer has agreed to purchase a designated amount or percentage of electricity from the electric utility to meet the customer's demand for electricity. Provides that a PCIA is to be based on the reduced load customer's proportionate share of the electric utility's costs outstanding in connection with: (1) existing facilities or infrastructure; and (2) existing power purchase agreements; as of the in service date of the customer's cogeneration facility or the date of termination of the requirements contract or other similar contract. Provides that for each calendar year in which a PCIA is in effect, the PCIA is to be calculated based on the difference between: (1) the electric utility's actual portfolio cost, as determined by the IURC, as of the in service date of the reduced load customer's cogeneration facility or the date of termination of the requirements contract or other similar contract, as applicable; minus (2) the market value of the electric utility's supply side portfolio for the particular calendar year, as determined by the IURC.
Authorizes the Indiana state police and the Indiana department of transportation to establish a pilot program for the deployment of an automated worksite speed control system to enforce highway worksite speed limits. Provides that a worksite speed limit violation recorded by an automated worksite speed control system may not be enforced unless the violation is at least 12 miles per hour above the established worksite speed limit. Replaces the term "work zone" with "worksite" throughout the relevant statutes.
Provides, with certain exceptions, that suppliers in transactions with retailers for the sale of nonalcoholic packaged beverages (beverages) may not: (1) charge retailers different prices at the same time for beverages; and (2) offer a discount price to a retailer that has not been published on a monthly deal sheet distributed to all retailers. Provides that a supplier may charge a retailer a different price not published on the monthly deal sheet if: (1) the discount is a volume based discount of not more than one semitrailer load delivered to a single location of the retailer per stock keeping unit of the beverage; (2) the supplier charges a retailer a higher price for the beverages based only on a greater cost to the supplier to deliver the beverages to the retailer; or (3) the supplier charges a different price for the beverages in response to changing conditions affecting the market for or marketability of the beverage. Provides that a supplier who fails to comply commits an unconscionable act that is treated the same as a deceptive act under the deceptive consumer sales law. Provides that the consumer protection division of the office of the attorney general (division) may prosecute complaints of retailers against suppliers. Provides that certain deceptive consumer sales provisions do not apply to the unconscionable act. Provides that if the division files an action to enjoin the unconscionable act, the division may be awarded a civil penalty equal to two times the amount of the difference between the higher price at which the beverages were sold to a retailer and the lower price at which the beverages were sold to another retailer. Provides that a retailer may receive an award equal to two times the difference between the higher price at which the beverages were sold to the retailer and the lower price at which the beverages were sold to another retailer, plus attorney's fees. Makes technical corrections.
