HB515: relative to options for customers who are in arrears in utility bill payments.

HB 515 - AS INTRODUCED

2017 SESSION

17-0660

06/04

HOUSE BILL 515

AN ACT relative to options for customers who are in arrears in utility bill payments.

SPONSORS: Rep. Fisher, Belk. 9; Rep. Zaricki, Hills. 6; Rep. Schleien, Hills. 37; Rep. Hynes, Hills. 21

COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy

ANALYSIS

This bill provides a residential customer who is required to pay a deposit to a utility company because his or her account is in arrears with the option of bringing the account into good standing.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0660

06/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

AN ACT relative to options for customers who are in arrears in utility bill payments.

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

1 New Section; Billing by Utility Companies; Option for Customers in Arrears. Amend RSA 378:48 by inserting after section 48 the following new section:

378:48-a Option for Residential Customer in Arrears. In this section, "customer in good standing" means any customer who is not in arrears. Any existing residential customer who is required by a utility to pay a deposit for nonpayment of an account shall have the option of paying such deposit or becoming a customer in good standing. No customer in good standing shall be charged a deposit.

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