Title: Electric Vehicle Regulation

Summary: Requires PSC to adopt rules relating to electric vehicle charging; rules must be competitively neutral & apply to certain public utilities; requires PSC to adopt rules for orderly transition of existing investments in specified infrastructure used for such stations; prohibits public utility from certain actions relating to electric vehicle charging stations.

Full Text:
An act relating to electric vehicle regulation; amending s. 366.94, F.S.; requiring the Florida Public Service Commission to adopt rules relating to electric vehicle charging; requiring such rules to be competitively neutral and apply to certain public utilities; requiring the commission to adopt rules for the orderly transition of certain existing investments in specified infrastructure used for such stations; requiring the commission to propose and adopt such rules by specified dates; prohibiting a public utility from certain actions relating to electric vehicle charging stations; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 366.94, Florida Statutes, is renumbered as subsection (4), present subsection (2) is amended, and new subsection (3) is added to that section, to read: 366.94 Electric vehicle charging;regulation; ra te structure stations.-(2)(a) The commission shall adopt rules for electric vehicle charging that will facilitate the widespread deployment of electric vehicle charging stations and infrastructure through HB 1591 2023 consumer choice and competition and the use of reasonable and affordable cost-based electric rates for public utility ratepayers that offer electric vehicle charging services to the public. Such rules must be competitively neutral and apply to public utilities offering such services to the public. (b) The commission shall adopt rules for the orderly transition of existing public utility investments in public utility infrastructure used for electric vehicle charging stations offered to the public to a structurally separate subsidiary without adverse im pacts to public utility ratepayers. (c) The commission shall propose such rules by January 1, 2024, with final rule adoption by January 1, 2025 The Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services shall adopt rules to provide definitions, methods of sale, labeling requirements, and price-posting requirements for electric vehicle charging stations to allow for consistency for consumers and the industry.(3) A public utility may not: (a) Use rate-based investments in the ownership and operation of elect ric vehicle charging stations. (b) Limit public utility cost recovery to distribution level system infrastructure that does not include electric vehicle charging stations. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.