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While legislative bills may sound bad, let's talk utility bills. With commercial and residential customers bracing for outrageous natural gas and electricity statements owing to February's historic winter storm, state leaders have reportedly been having discussions over how to provide relief and prevent such a situation in the future.
Sen. James Leewright (R-Bristow) and Sen. Zack Taylor (R-Seminole) told media last week that they have met privately with Attorney General Mike Hunter, Gov. Kevin Stitt and House leaders for more than 18 hours over 11 different meetings.
"The main focus of it is for us to get our hands (...) around and understand exactly what happened and to mitigate the cost to the ratepayers and then for this group to provide some guidance on any policy to mitigate and hopefully keep this from happening again," Leewright said. "We are working very diligently on several solutions. They're all coming together right now. Hopefully by early next week we will have more to present. But yes, we are coming up with some solutions. We've just got to decide is that the right path to go and are these solutions we are going to try to use."
Leewright said that, at some point, the group will begin a public phase of its work "where we will call in different groups to publicly ask questions."
With rumors swirling that important community entities are already receiving exorbitant bills in the mail, those meetings from state leaders will be of interest to many people.
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