Bill Text: NJ A3850 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires BPU to establish procedures allowing electric power and gas supplier customers to switch energy suppliers.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-3)

Status: (Passed) 2016-01-19 - Approved P.L.2015, c.291. [A3850 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-A3850-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 3850

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED OCTOBER 23, 2014

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  WAYNE P. DEANGELO

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Assemblyman  TIMOTHY J. EUSTACE

District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)

Assemblyman  VINCENT MAZZEO

District 2 (Atlantic)

Assemblywoman  ELIANA PINTOR MARIN

District 29 (Essex)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Fiocchi and Assemblywoman Simon

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires BPU to establish procedures allowing electric power and gas supplier customers to switch energy suppliers.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee on December 4, 2014, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning third-party electric power and gas supplier customer contracts, and supplementing P.L.1999, c.23.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    ¹[The Board of Public Utilities shall establish procedures to ensure that within 30 calendar days of a customer's request, a customer shall be permitted to switch electric generation service from an electric power supplier to a basic generation service provider, or switch gas supply service from a gas supplier to a basic gas supply service.] a. A customer shall be permitted to switch between an electric power supplier and a basic generation service provider, between electric power suppliers, between a gas supplier and a gas public utility, or between gas suppliers no later than the 30th day following the date an electric public utility or a gas public utility is notified of the customer's request by an electric power supplier or a gas supplier, as determined by the board.

     b. As used in this section:

     "Basic generation service provider," "board," "electric power supplier," "electric public utility," "gas public utility," and "gas supplier" shall have the same meaning as provided in section 3 of P.L.1999, c.23 (C.48:3-51).¹

 

     2.    This act shall take effect on the 60th day after the date of enactment and shall apply to contracts formed or renewed on or after the effective date of this act.