Bill Text: NH HB123 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibiting an electric utility from disconnecting service from a residence or building in which a person is using life-sustaining medical equipment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2012-01-11 - House Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote; House Journal 9, PG.538 [HB123 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2012-HB123-Introduced.html
HB 123 – AS INTRODUCED
2011 SESSION
06/05
HOUSE BILL 123
AN ACT prohibiting an electric utility from disconnecting service from a residence or building in which a person is using life-sustaining medical equipment.
SPONSORS: Rep. S. Lindsey, Ches 3
COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy
This bill prohibits an electric utility from disconnecting service from a residence or building in which a person is using life-sustaining medical equipment.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
11-0865
06/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eleven
AN ACT prohibiting an electric utility from disconnecting service from a residence or building in which a person is using life-sustaining medical equipment.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Life-Sustaining Medical Equipment. Amend RSA 363-B by inserting after section 3 the following new section:
363-B:4 Life-Sustaining Medical Equipment.
I. No public electric utility shall disconnect electricity to residences or buildings in which any person is using life-sustaining medical equipment.
II. Any electric utility that provides electricity to a residence or building in which any person uses life-sustaining medical equipment shall post a sign outside such residence or building stating that such equipment is in use.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.