HB 1362 - AS INTRODUCED

2016 SESSION

16-2526

06/04

HOUSE BILL 1362

AN ACT requiring telephone notice where an electrical outage is expected to exceed 4 hours.

SPONSORS: Rep. Hull, Graf. 9

COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy

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ANALYSIS

This bill requires electric utilities to give notice to customers by telephone when an electric outage is expected to exceed 4 hours.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

16-2526

06/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

AN ACT requiring telephone notice where an electrical outage is expected to exceed 4 hours.

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

1  New Subdivision; Notice of Electric Outage.  Amend RSA 374 by inserting after section 62 the following new subdivision:

Notice of Electric Outage

374:63  Notice of Electric Outage Required.  When any electric outage is expected to exceed 4 hours in duration, the electric utility shall give telephone notice to customers affected by such outage.

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