Rate Case Cost Recovery Prohibition (HB6094)

Current understanding

HB6094 would amend 1939 PA 3 (the Public Service Commission Act, MCL 460.1–460.11) by adding a new Sec. 6bb that prohibits utilities from filing rate cases with the Michigan Public Service Commission to recover certain categories of costs. The bill is introduced; the specific cost categories excluded from recovery and the effect on ratepayers and utility earnings depend on the statutory text.

Evidence log

• 2026-05-12 — Public utilities: rates; requirements for rate increases; provide for. Amends sec. 6a of 1939 PA 3 (MCL 460.6a).: cross-connection with utility-rate-increase-requirements: Part of a broader package of 2025-26 bills tightening what utilities can seek or recover in rate cases. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-10 — Public utilities: rates; use of actual cost for setting utility rates; require. Amends sec. 6a of 1939 PA 3 (MCL 460.6a).: SB1031, also amending Sec. 6a of 1939 PA 3, would require actual costs (not projections) in rate-setting — a parallel constraint on MPSC ratemaking alongside HB6094’s cost-recovery prohibition. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-06-16 — Public utilities: rates; return on equity rates; limit. Amends sec. 6a of 1939 PA 3 (MCL 460.6a).: Companion HB6095 in the same package would amend Sec. 6a of 1939 PA 3 to cap utility return on equity rates, complementing HB6094’s cost-recovery prohibition by directly constraining the profit component of MPSC-approved rates. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-06-16 — Public utilities: public service commission; filing of rate cases for recovery of certain costs; prohibit. Amends 1939 PA 3 (MCL 460.1 - 460.11) by adding sec. 6bb.: cross-connection with utility-rate-increase-disclosure: Both bills constrain the utility rate-case process before the MPSC — HB6094 by barring certain cost recoveries and HB6131 by imposing revenue-disclosure requirements. (novelty: 3)

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