Bill Text: MI HB4662 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Public utilities; consumer services; information regarding energy assistance programs; require to be included on customer's bills. Amends 1939 PA 3 (MCL 460.1 - 460.11) by adding sec. 9j.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-02 - Referred To Committee On Energy Policy And Public Utilities [HB4662 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2009-HB4662-Engrossed.html
HB-4662, As Passed House, March 31, 2009
SUBSTITUTE FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 4662
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 9j.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 9j. (1) A provider shall supply information regarding the
following to its customers at least 2 times a year:
(a) The federal and state energy assistance programs that are
available and the eligibility requirements of the programs as
provided to the provider by the commission.
(b) Medical emergency protections.
(c) Military shut-off protections.
(d) Low-income protections.
(e) Senior citizen protections.
(2) The information required under subsection (1) may be
supplied in or on a customer's bill, in a bill insert, in a
newsletter issued to its customers, a public forum, newspaper
announcement, or electronic communication, or, for a cooperative
electric utility, in a periodical issued by an association of rural
electric cooperatives.
(3) The information under subsection (1) may be transmitted in
the same manner as the customer's billing. The commission may
supplement the methods of providing the information required under
subsection (1).
(4) As used in this section, "provider" means an electric
utility, municipally owned electric or natural gas utility,
cooperative electric utility, or alternative electric supplier, or
a natural gas utility as defined in section 9.
