Bill Text: PA HB1959 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: In rates and ratemaking, providing for service outages by electric utilities.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-11-02 - Referred to CONSUMER AFFAIRS [HB1959 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1959-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 2698
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1959 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY CALTAGIRONE, MURPHY, GEORGE, BISHOP, BOBACK, V. BROWN, COHEN, DALEY, DONATUCCI, EVERETT, HARKINS, HORNAMAN, JOSEPHS, MAHONEY, MANN, SCHRODER, THOMAS, YOUNGBLOOD, QUINN AND DeWEESE, NOVEMBER 2, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER AFFAIRS, NOVEMBER 2, 2011
AN ACT
Amending Title 66 (Public Utilities) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in rates and ratemaking, providing for
service outages by electric utilities.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 66 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 1322.1. Service outages by electric utilities.
On the bill rendered by an electric utility following a
service outage, the electric utility shall credit the ratepayer
the amount of money charged for one kilowatt hour for each
kilowatt hour of the service outage.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.