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Relating to public utility billing practices
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 5, 2020
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 6, 2020
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to the billing practices of providers of public utilities.1A, the bill defines a “public utility” to include a person who furnishes solid waste collection to the public for compensation. The bill prohibits a public utility from charging a customer for services provided by the public utility to the customer more than one year ago, unless, as part of its normal billing practices, the public utility previously attempted to collect on the charges associated with such services within one year after the public utility provided the services.
Read the full explanation
1C, subsection 1, paragraph “a”, to provide that this prohibition applies to electric public utilities having fewer than 10,000 customers, electric cooperative corporations and associations, municipally owned utilities furnishing gas or electricity, municipally owned utilities providing local exchange services, and gas public utilities having fewer than 2,000 customers.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 6, 2020. On February 13, 2020 it recommended amendment and passage.
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