Bill Text: MI HB4393 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Public utilities; consumer services; notification to landlord of tenants at risk for utility shutoff; require of utility companies. Amends 1939 PA 3 (MCL 460.1 - 460.11) by adding sec. 9e.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-26 - Printed Bill Filed 03/26/2015 [HB4393 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-HB4393-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4393
March 25, 2015, Introduced by Rep. Glenn and referred to the Committee on Energy Policy.
A bill to amend 1939 PA 3, entitled
"An act to provide for the regulation and control of public and
certain private utilities and other services affected with a public
interest within this state; to provide for alternative energy
suppliers; to provide for licensing; to include municipally owned
utilities and other providers of energy under certain provisions of
this act; to create a public service commission and to prescribe
and define its powers and duties; to abolish the Michigan public
utilities commission and to confer the powers and duties vested by
law on the public service commission; to provide for the
continuance, transfer, and completion of certain matters and
proceedings; to abolish automatic adjustment clauses; to prohibit
certain rate increases without notice and hearing; to qualify
residential energy conservation programs permitted under state law
for certain federal exemption; to create a fund; to provide for a
restructuring of the manner in which energy is provided in this
state; to encourage the utilization of resource recovery
facilities; to prohibit certain acts and practices of providers of
energy; to allow for the securitization of stranded costs; to
reduce rates; to provide for appeals; to provide appropriations; to
declare the effect and purpose of this act; to prescribe remedies
and penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,"
(MCL 460.1 to 460.11) by adding section 9e.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 9e. (1) A provider shall not shut off electric or natural
gas service to a residential rental property unless the provider
sends notice to the owner of the property by first-class mail not
less than 14 days before the specified date for shutoff.
(2) As used in this section, "provider" means an electric
utility, cooperative electric utility, municipally owned electric
utility, or alternative electric supplier, or a natural gas utility
as defined in section 9.
