HB1127 – Allows utilities to electrify transportation infrastructure.
Prime Sponsor – Representative Morris (D, 40th District, Mount Vernon)
Current status – Referred to the Committee on Environment & Energy. Reintroduced and retained in present status for 2020 session.
Next step would be – Scheduling a hearing.
Legislative tracking page for the bill.

Summary –
Allows utilities to adopt transportation electrification plans if they determine that outreach and investment in electrification infrastructure is cost-effective in the context of acquiring new resources, considering system benefits and costs to ratepayers. (The bill says that system benefits for a utility exist “where financial, reliability, and quality benefits of the electrification of transportation are conferred equally among all ratepayers on the distribution system or among the utility’s resource generation portfolio.”) If they aren’t acquiring resources, they may determine it’s cost-effective considering those factors and “long-term contracted wholesale electricity supply that will result in a greater ratepayer benefit than the individual benefit from the program cost.” [I’m not sure what either section in quotes is supposed to mean…]

These plans may consider multiple options for transportation electrification across all customer classes; its anticipated impact on loads and whether load management opportunities including demand response, direct load control and dynamic pricing, are appropriate; system reliability and distribution system efficiencies; interoperability concerns, including those between hardware and software systems; and their customers’ overall experience.

Utilities that determine outreach and investment in such infrastructure is cost-effective may offer programs to electrify transportation infrastructure to their customers, including advertising to promote services, rebates and incentives they or others provide.

If specific funding for it is appropriated by June 30th, 2019, the Department of Commerce shall arrange for a study of the capital expenditures projected to be required by growth in distributed resources, including photovoltaic systems, electric vehicles, and any other customer-owned technologies likely to affect capital expenditures, including a low and high adoption scenario for each resource.