Bill Text: MI HB6045 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Public utilities: consumer services; eligibility for utility power outage credits; provide for. Amends 1939 PA 3 (MCL 460.1 - 460.11) by adding sec. 9e.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-26 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 04/14/2022 [HB6045 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-HB6045-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 6045
A bill to amend 1939 PA 3, entitled
"An act to provide for the regulation and control of public and certain private utilities and other services affected with a public interest within this state; to provide for alternative energy suppliers; to provide for licensing; to include municipally owned utilities and other providers of energy under certain provisions of this act; to create a public service commission and to prescribe and define its powers and duties; to abolish the Michigan public utilities commission and to confer the powers and duties vested by law on the public service commission; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state governmental officers and entities; to provide for the continuance, transfer, and completion of certain matters and proceedings; to abolish automatic adjustment clauses; to prohibit certain rate increases without notice and hearing; to qualify residential energy conservation programs permitted under state law for certain federal exemption; to create a fund; to encourage the utilization of resource recovery facilities; to prohibit certain acts and practices of providers of energy; to allow for the securitization of stranded costs; to reduce rates; to provide for appeals; to provide appropriations; to declare the effect and purpose of this act; to prescribe remedies and penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,"
(MCL 460.1 to 460.11) by adding section 9e.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 9e. (1) An electric utility shall do all of the following:
(a) Automatically provide a $100.00 credit on a customer's electric utility bill if that customer had 4 service interruptions lasting 1 or more hours in the preceding 12 months.
(b) Automatically provide a $200.00 credit on a customer's electric utility bill if that customer had more than 4 service interruptions lasting 1 or more hours in the preceding 12 months.
(2) Beginning 5 years after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section and every 5 years thereafter, the commission shall adjust the credits in subsection (1). The commission shall adjust the credits in subsection (1) by comparing the percentage increase or decrease in the Consumer Price Index for the preceding year by the corresponding Consumer Price Index 5 years earlier. The commission shall multiply that percentage change by the amounts in subsection (1). The commission shall round up each dollar value adjustment made under this subsection to the nearest dollar. The commission shall announce the adjustments made under this subsection by June 1 of each year.
(3) As used in this section:
(a) "Consumer Price Index" means the most comprehensive index of consumer prices available for the Detroit area from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor.
(b) "Service interruption" means a full or partial loss of electric service.
