Bill Text: CT HB07030 | 2017 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Protecting The Credit Of Certain Utility Customers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-06-02 - Senate Calendar Number 568 [HB07030 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2017-HB07030-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Governor's Bill No. 7030
January Session, 2017		LCO No. 3791
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Referred to Committee on BANKING
Introduced by:
REP. ARESIMOWICZ, 30th Dist. REP. RITTER M., 1st Dist. SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist. SEN. DUFF, 25th Dist.

AN ACT PROTECTING THE CREDIT OF CERTAIN UTILITY CUSTOMERS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subsection (g) of section 16-262d of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2017):

(g) No electric distribution, gas, telephone or water company, certified telecommunications provider, gas registrant or municipal utility furnishing electric, gas or water service shall submit to a credit rating agency, as defined in section 36a-695, any information about a residential customer's nonpayment for electric, gas, telephone, telecommunications or water service. [unless the customer is more than sixty days delinquent in paying for such service. In no event shall such a company, certified telecommunications provider, gas registrant or municipal utility submit to a credit rating agency any information about a residential customer's nonpayment for such service if the customer has initiated a complaint, investigation hearing or appeal with regard to such service under subsection (c) of this section that is pending before the authority. If such a company, certified telecommunications provider, gas registrant or municipal utility intends to submit to a credit rating agency information about a customer's nonpayment for service, it shall, at least thirty days before submitting such information, send the customer by first class mail notification that includes the statement, "AS AUTHORIZED BY LAW, FOR RESIDENTIAL ACCOUNTS, WE SUPPLY PAYMENT INFORMATION TO CREDIT RATING AGENCIES. IF YOUR ACCOUNT IS MORE THAN SIXTY DAYS DELINQUENT, THE DELINQUENCY REPORT COULD HARM YOUR CREDIT RATING".]

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2017	16-262d(g)

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Joint Favorable