SB480
Public utilities; municipal utilities, disconnection of service, consumer protections.
Status:
Enacted
Latest Action:
April 17, 2024
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0790)
Chief Patron:
Lashrecse Aird (D)
Session:
2024 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed Both Chambers. Public utilities; municipal utilities; disconnection of service; limitations; report; consumer protections.
Suspends electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities subject to the regulation of the State Corporation Commission from disconnecting service to a residential customer for nonpayment of bills or fees during a state of emergency declared by the Governor and provides that such suspension lasts for 30 days after such declaration ... (More) of the state of emergency. The bill suspends such electric and gas utilities from disconnecting service to a residential customer for nonpayment of bills or fees when the forecasted temperature low is at or below 32 degrees Fahrenheit and suspends electric utilities from disconnecting any such customer from service when the forecasted temperature is at or above 92 degrees Fahrenheit within the 24 hours following the scheduled disconnection. The bill further suspends electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities from disconnecting residential customers from service on Fridays, weekends, state holidays, and the day immediately preceding a state holiday. The bill requires each such utility to notify its residential customers of such utility's disconnection for nonpayment policy and to deliver notice of nonpayment of bills or fees to such customers prior to disconnection. This bill is identical to HB 906. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/09/2024 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104314D
- 01/09/2024 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/21/2024 - Senate: Impact statement from DHCD/CLG (SB480)
- 01/29/2024 - Senate: Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 01/29/2024 - Senate: Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 01/29/2024 - Senate: Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 01/29/2024 - Senate: Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 01/29/2024 - Senate: Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 01/29/2024 - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/2024 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 24106532D-S1
- 01/29/2024 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/07/2024 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/2024 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/2024 - Senate: Read second time
- 02/09/2024 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/09/2024 - Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 24106532D-S1
- 02/09/2024 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB480S1
- 02/09/2024 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/2024 - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/2024 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/15/2024 - House: Read first time
- 02/15/2024 - House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
- 02/20/2024 - House: House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 02/20/2024 - House: Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (17-Y 5-N)
- 02/20/2024 - House: Committee substitute printed 24107865D-H1
- 02/20/2024 - Senate: Impact statement from SCC (SB480S1)
- 02/22/2024 - House: Read second time
- 02/23/2024 - House: Read third time
- 02/23/2024 - House: Committee substitute agreed to 24107865D-H1
- 02/23/2024 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB480H1
- 02/23/2024 - House: Passed House with substitute (77-Y 21-N)
- 02/23/2024 - House: VOTE: Passage (77-Y 21-N)
- 02/27/2024 - Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (37-Y 1-N)
- 02/27/2024 - Senate: Title replaced 24107865D-H1
- 03/04/2024 - Senate: Enrolled
- 03/04/2024 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB480ER)
- 03/04/2024 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/07/2024 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/08/2024 - Senate: Impact statement from SCC (SB480H1)
- 03/11/2024 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
- 03/11/2024 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 04/08/2024 - Senate: Governor's recommendation received by Senate
- 04/17/2024 - Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
- 04/17/2024 - House: House concurred in Governor's recommendation (89-Y 11-N)
- 04/17/2024 - House: VOTE: Adoption (89-Y 11-N)
- 04/17/2024 - Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
- 04/17/2024 - Senate: Reenrolled
- 04/17/2024 - Senate: Reenrolled bill text (SB480ER2)
- 04/17/2024 - Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
- 04/17/2024 - House: Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 04/17/2024 - House: Enacted, Chapter 790 (effective 7/1/24)
- 04/17/2024 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0790)
