HB 1337 - AS INTRODUCED

2016 SESSION

16-2435

06/01

HOUSE BILL 1337

AN ACT relative to rules of the public utilities commission on requiring deposits after disconnect notices to customers.

SPONSORS: Rep. Fisher, Belk. 9; Rep. Schleien, Hills. 37

COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy

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ANALYSIS

This bill prohibits the public utilities commission from adopting rules permitting a utility to require a deposit from a residential customer who has received disconnect notices but whose service has not been disconnected.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

16-2435

06/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

AN ACT relative to rules of the public utilities commission on requiring deposits after disconnect notices to customers.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1  New Section; Public Utilities; Rulemaking; Limitations.  Amend RSA 365 by inserting after section 8-a the following new section:

365:8-b  Limitation on Rulemaking.  A utility shall not require a deposit from a customer except upon the opening of a new account or after disconnection for nonpayment of service.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.