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2023 SESSION
SB 1447 Disconnections of utility service; SCC to establish limitations, etc.
Introduced by: John S. Edwards | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
State Corporation Commission; limitations on disconnection of utility service by certain utilities. Directs the State Corporation Commission to conduct a proceeding for the purpose of establishing regulatory limitations on the authority of an investor-owned electric utility, natural gas utility, water utility, wastewater utility, or electric cooperative subject to regulation by the Commission to disconnect service to any customer for the nonpayment of bills or fees during a statewide emergency declared by the Governor in response to a widespread communicable disease of public health threat, during temperature weather extremes, or on a Friday, weekend, state holiday, or day immediately preceding a state holiday. The bill requires the Commission to ensure that such regulations are effective by November 1, 2023. The bill encourages certain utilities not subject to regulation by the Commission to adopt an internal operating policy to suspend service disconnections for nonpayment of bills or fees for 30 days in the case of a statewide emergency declared by the Governor in response to a widespread communicable disease of public health threat and to avoid disconnecting service to residential customers for nonpayment of bills or fees on a Friday, weekend, state holiday, or day immediately preceding a state holiday or during temperature weather extremes.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/23 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 23104094D pdf | impact statement
- 01/30/23 Senate: Committee substitute printed 23105448D-S1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/11/23 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 23104094D
- 01/11/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/24/23 Senate: Assigned C&L sub: Energy
- 01/30/23 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (9-Y 6-N)
- 01/30/23 Senate: Committee substitute printed 23105448D-S1
- 02/01/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/23 Senate: Read second time
- 02/02/23 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/02/23 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 23105448D-S1
- 02/02/23 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1447S1
- 02/03/23 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 15-N)
- 02/09/23 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/09/23 House: Read first time
- 02/09/23 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy
- 02/13/23 House: Assigned sub: Special Subcommittee #5
- 02/16/23 House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (4-Y 2-N)
- 02/22/23 House: Left in Commerce and Energy