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HB 460 Public utilities; assessment of costs to tenants.

Introduced by: Harvey B. Morgan | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Public utilities. Adds licensed competitive providers of electrical service to the list of entities from whom lessors may purchase electricity, natural gas, and water for resale to their tenants. A provision prohibiting multiple rate increases in a 12-month period by telephone cooperatives is removed because the SCC does not regulate the rates charged by telephone cooperatives. Finally, the bill corrects a Code citation.

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Public utilities. Adds licensed competitive providers of electrical service to the list of entities from whom lessors may purchase electricity, natural gas, and water for resale to their tenants. A provision prohibiting multiple rate increases in a 12-month period by telephone cooperatives is removed because the SCC does not regulate the rates charged by telephone cooperatives. Finally, the bill corrects a Code citation.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Public utilities. Clarifies that lessors who provide utility service to their tenants may assess the same $2 administrative cost to tenants' water service bills as they can to their natural gas and electric service bills. The bill also adds licensed competitive providers of electrical service to the list of entities from whom lessors may purchase electricity, natural gas, and water for resale to their tenants. A provision prohibiting multiple rate increases in a 12-month period by telephone cooperatives is removed because the SCC does not regulate the rates charged by telephone cooperatives. Finally, the bill corrects a Code citation.