Maryland Senate Bill 685 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Engrossed on March 15 2020 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-03-16 - Referred Economic Matters
Pending: House Economic Matters Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Prohibiting, with a certain exception, a retail electricity or natural gas supplier from knowingly enrolling a certain residential customer with or submitting an enrollment to change the customer's electricity supplier to a competitive supplier if the customer had received certain financial assistance in the preceding 12 months; requiring an electric company to confirm certain matters in its records at a certain time; requiring an electric company to verify a customer's status at a certain time; etc.

Electricity and Gas - Energy Suppliers - Assisted Customers

Sen. Mary Washington [D]

Sen. Joanne Benson [D]

Sen. Delores Kelley [D]

2020-03-15 - Senate - Third Reading Passed (Y: 36 N: 9 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-16	House	Referred Economic Matters
2020-03-15	Senate	Third Reading Passed (36-9)
2020-03-14	Senate	Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2020-03-14	Senate	Favorable with Amendments {327672/1 Adopted
2020-03-14	Senate	Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
2020-02-05	Senate	Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
2020-02-03	Senate	First Reading Finance

SB685 (Carry Over) 2020-03-16 - Referred Economic Matters
HB1224 (Crossfiled) 2020-02-11 - Hearing 3/09 at 1:00 p.m.

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Public Utilities	7	505	(n/a)	See Bill Text
Public Utilities	7	604.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0685?ys=2020RS
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0685f.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0685t.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/amds/bil_0005/sb0685_32767201.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/votes_comm/sb0685_fin.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/votes/Senate/0758.pdf