Bill Text: NH HB317 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibiting the public utilities commission from increasing the system benefits charge without legislative approval.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-11-07 - Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate [HB317 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2017-HB317-Introduced.html

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HB 317 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2017 SESSION

17-0458

06/10

 

HOUSE BILL 317

 

AN ACT prohibiting the public utilities commission from increasing the system benefits charge without legislative approval.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Vose, Rock. 9; Rep. D. Thomas, Rock. 5; Rep. Kurk, Hills. 2; Rep. Cordelli, Carr. 4

 

COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill prohibits the public utilities commission from increasing the system benefits charge without legislative approval.

 

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0458

06/10

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT prohibiting the public utilities commission from increasing the system benefits charge without legislative approval.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Electric Utility Restructuring; Implementation; System Benefits Charge.  Amend RSA 374-F:4, VIII(e) to read as follows:

(e)  Targeted conservation, energy efficiency, and load management programs and incentives that are part of a strategy to minimize distribution costs may be included in the distribution charge or the system benefits charge, provided that system benefits charge funds are only used for customer-based energy efficiency measures, and such funding shall not exceed 10 percent of the energy efficiency portion of a utility's annual system benefits charge funds.  A proposal for such use of system benefits charge funds shall be presented to the commission for approval.  Any such approval shall initially be on a pilot program basis and the results of each pilot program proposal shall be subject to evaluation by the commission.  The commission shall not increase the system benefits charge without legislative approval.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.