HB 1524 - AS INTRODUCED
2000 SESSION
08/09
HOUSE BILL 1524
AN ACT requiring all retail suppliers of electricity to disclose information regarding the environmental characteristics of the electric power in their resource mix, and establishing a committee to determine optimal ways to ensure that all electricity sold in New Hampshire conforms with acceptable environmental standards.
SPONSORS: Rep. Lynde, Hills 24; Rep. Gilmore, Straf 11; Sen. Below, Dist 5
COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy
This bill establishes a committee to determine optimal ways to ensure that all electricity sold in New Hampshire conforms with acceptable environmental standards. This bill also requires that all retail suppliers of electricity disclose information regarding the environmental characteristics of the electric power in their resource mix.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
00-2562
08/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT requiring all retail suppliers of electricity to disclose information regarding the environmental characteristics of the electric power in their resource mix, and establishing a committee to determine optimal ways to ensure that all electricity sold in New Hampshire conforms with acceptable environmental standards.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Committee Established. There is established a committee to study, evaluate, and determine optimal ways to ensure that all electricity sold in New Hampshire conforms to acceptable environmental standards.
2 Membership and Compensation.
I. The members of the committee shall be as follows:
(a) Three members of the house of representatives, appointed by the speaker of the house.
(b) Three members of the senate, appointed by the president of the senate.
II. Members of the committee shall receive mileage at the legislative rate when attending to the duties of the committee.
3 Duties. The committee shall assess and determine viable methods to ensure that all electricity sold in the state of New Hampshire, whether generated in New Hampshire or outside of the state, conforms with acceptable environmental standards.
4 Chairperson; Quorum. The members of the study committee shall elect a chairperson from among the members. The first meeting of the committee shall be called by the first-named house member. The first meeting of the committee shall be held within 45 days of the effective date of this section. Four members of the committee shall constitute a quorum.
5 Report. The committee shall report its findings and any recommendations for proposed legislation to the speaker of the house of representatives, the senate president, the house clerk, the senate clerk, the governor, and the state library on or before November 1, 2000.
6 New Section; Public Utilities; Electricity Suppliers; Disclosure of Environmental Characteristics of Electric Power Sold. Amend RSA 374-F by inserting after section 7 the following new section:
374-F:8 Disclosure of Environmental Characteristics of Electric Power Sold.
I. Consistent with the intent of the general court in adopting this chapter, all retail suppliers of electricity shall periodically disclose to their customers, and make available to the public, information regarding the environmental characteristics of the electric power in their resource mix.
II. In order to implement paragraph I, the public utilities commission, in consultation with the department of environmental services, shall adopt rules under RSA 541-A within 12 months of the effective date of this section.
7 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.