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HB1690: prohibiting paper billing fees.

Citation
2020 HB1690
Official source

Bill details

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House status
Interim Study
Committee
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs
Hearing
01/29/2020 at 02:00 PM
Selected version
Current official bill text

Sponsors

Topics

Commerce and Consumer Affairs

Official links

HB 1690 - AS INTRODUCED

2020 SESSION

20-3088

05/08

HOUSE BILL 1690

AN ACT prohibiting paper billing fees.

SPONSORS: Rep. Wazir, Merr. 17; Rep. Flanagan, Hills. 26; Rep. Fowler, Rock. 20; Rep. Walz, Merr. 23; Rep. Vail, Hills. 30; Rep. Gay, Rock. 8; Rep. Roy, Rock. 32; Rep. Migliore, Graf. 9

COMMITTEE: Commerce and Consumer Affairs

ANALYSIS

This bill provides that charging a separate fee to receive a paper billing statement shall be a violation of the consumer protection act.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-3088

05/08

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

AN ACT prohibiting paper billing fees.

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

1 New Paragraph; Regulation of Business Practices for Consumer Protection; Acts. Unlawful; Paper Billing Fees. Amend RSA 358-A:2 by inserting after paragraph XVII the following new paragraph:

XVIII. Charging a separate fee to receive a paper billing statement, as opposed to an electronic billing statement, for goods or services.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.