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SB 797 Electric utilities; advanced meters.
Introduced by: Thomas A. Garrett | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Electric utilities; advanced meters. Prohibits any electric utility from installing an advanced meter on a customer's premises or requiring a customer to use any advanced meter unless the customer has requested it. An advanced meter is a meter that is capable of measuring, recording, storing, and reporting usage according to predetermined time criteria and that allows two-way communications suited for demand-response programs. Electric utilities are also required to uninstall an advanced meter at a customer's request; prohibited from giving any meter use data from an advanced meter to any person other than the electric utility; prohibited from shutting off service to a customer based on the amount of electricity the customer uses or the customer not having or using an advanced meter; prohibited from imposing any disincentive on a customer for not agreeing to the installation or use of an advanced meter; prohibited from obtaining data from an advanced meter more than once per month unless requested by a customer; and required to notify customers in writing that the installation and use of an advanced meter is not mandated by state law and is not permitted without the customer's request. The measure also repeals an existing provision that prohibits an investor-owned electric utility participating in an energy efficiency program from connecting advanced metering technology and equipment on the customer's side of the interconnection without the customer's express consent.
FULL TEXT
- 12/19/12 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13100731D pdf | impact statement
- 01/28/13 Senate: Committee substitute printed to Web only 13104601D-S1 pdf
HISTORY
- 12/19/12 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13100731D
- 12/19/12 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/28/13 Senate: Committee substitute printed to Web only 13104601D-S1
- 01/28/13 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 3-N 1-A)