PULS Annual Conference

Live and via Webcast

6.5 hours of MCLE credit, including 1 hour ethics

Annual Meeting and Seminar

00- Agenda
00- Speaker and Moderator Biographies
01- Case Law Update
Kellie Billings Ray
02- Update: Recent Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) Activity
John Arnold, Alexander C. Schoch and Kari L. French

04- Update: PUC Regulation of Water and Sewer Retail Public Utilities
Stephen Mack, John J Carlton, Tammy Shea, and Lambeth Townsend

05- Changing Grids: Regulatory and Policy Considerations
Dane McKaughan, Phillip G. Oldham, Nathan Bigbee, and J. Jolly Hayden

07- Changes to the Administrative Procedures Act
Jim Checkley, John Bennett, Stephen Journeay, and Ferdie Rodriguez (Paper)
Senate Bill No 1267
Stephen Journeay (Paper)
08- Update on the Current Issues in Telecommunications and Cable
Brad Bayliff (Presentation)
Lucas Meyers (Presentation)
09- Keynote Presentation:
Tonya Baer, Public Counsel, OPUC
10- Tax Treatment of Electric Utilities- Regulations, Precedent, and Pending Rulemakings
Ann Coffin, Darryl E. Tietjen, Geoffrey M. Gay, and Jason Ryan
11- Ethics: Thomas H. Watkins

AGENDA

Chapter 1 – “A Year in Review”

Chapter 2 – Transfer of Water Utilities to the PUC

Chapter 3 – New Water Infrastructure Funding

Chapter 3 – New Water Infrastructure Funding 2nd Presentation

Chapter 4 – Transmission Issues: What’s Next in ERCOT?

Chapter 5 – Case Law Update

Chapter 6 – Keynote Luncheon Presentation

Chapter 7 – Natural Gas Issues: Eminent Domain Update and Cost Recovery Mechanism

Chapter 8 – “The Second Leg of the Reliability Triad: A Market Driven Approach to Operational Reliability”

Chapter 9 – Telecommunications Issues

Chapter 9 – Telecommunications Issues 2nd Presentation

Chapter 10 – Load Forecasting Developments and Reserve Margin Project at the PUC

Chapter 11 – “Litigation Ethics: So You Say You’re Going to a Contested Hearing”