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HB1225

Electric utilities; notice before terminating service.

Status:
Enacted

Chief Patron:
Kathy Tran (D)

Session:
2020 Regular Session

Summary

As Passed House of Origin. Electric utilities; notice before terminating service.

Prohibits an electric utility from terminating the residential service of a customer for nonpayment for metered services when the electric utility believes that the customer is receiving or has received electric utility services for which the customer was not properly billed as the result of tampering with the electric utility's meter until the electric utility has (i) retrieved the meter from the customer's premises, which may be done without providing prior notice to the customer; (ii) immediately replaced it with a new meter; and (iii) determined whether the meter has been tampered with. The measure requires that if the electric utility determines that the meter has been tampered with and seeks payment for services not properly billed, the electric utility must provide the customer with a detailed invoice billing the customer for the amount owed by the customer as a result of the meter's failure. The electric utility is required to provide the customer one full billing period to pay the amount billed in such invoice. The measure authorizes a customer to submit a complaint to the State Corporation Commission and to file a formal proceeding after the informal complaint process has been exhausted. The measure includes specific conditions for which these requirements do not apply, including the condition of a customer's wiring, equipment, or appliances is either unsafe or unsuitable for receiving the utility service or the customer's use of the utility service or equipment interferes with or may be detrimental to the utility's facilities or to the provision of utility service by the utility to any other customer. (Less)

  • Bill History

  • 01/07/2020 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104117D
  • 01/07/2020 - House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
  • 01/16/2020 - House: Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3
  • 01/21/2020 - House: Impact statement from SCC (HB1225)
  • 01/30/2020 - House: House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
  • 01/30/2020 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N)
  • 02/04/2020 - House: Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
  • 02/04/2020 - House: Committee substitute printed 20107201D-H1
  • 02/05/2020 - House: Read first time
  • 02/06/2020 - House: Read second time
  • 02/06/2020 - House: Committee substitute agreed to 20107201D-H1
  • 02/06/2020 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1225H1
  • 02/07/2020 - House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
  • 02/07/2020 - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
  • 02/10/2020 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 02/10/2020 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
  • 02/12/2020 - House: Impact statement from SCC (HB1225H1)
  • 03/02/2020 - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (12-Y 3-N)
  • 03/02/2020 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 20109390D-S1
  • 03/04/2020 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  • 03/05/2020 - Senate: Read third time
  • 03/05/2020 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
  • 03/05/2020 - Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 20109390D-S1
  • 03/05/2020 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1225S1
  • 03/05/2020 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (22-Y 18-N)   Close Floor Vote
  • 03/05/2020 - House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 20109390D-S1 (93-Y 4-N)
  • 03/05/2020 - House: VOTE: Adoption (93-Y 4-N)
  • 03/09/2020 - House: Impact statement from SCC (HB1225S1)
  • 03/12/2020 - House: Enrolled
  • 03/12/2020 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1225ER)
  • 03/12/2020 - House: Signed by Speaker
  • 03/12/2020 - Senate: Signed by President
  • 03/13/2020 - House: Impact statement from SCC (HB1225ER)
  • 03/17/2020 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 17, 2020
  • 03/17/2020 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
  • 04/06/2020 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 668 (effective 7/1/20)
  • 04/06/2020 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0668)

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