Bill Text: NJ S242 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires BPU to allow low- and moderate-income residential customers to self-attest to income for participation in community solar programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Environment and Energy Committee [S242 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-S242-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 242

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  BOB SMITH

District 17 (Middlesex and Somerset)

Senator  M. TERESA RUIZ

District 29 (Essex)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Diegnan

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires BPU to allow low- and moderate-income residential customers to self-attest to income for participation in community solar programs.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

An Act concerning community solar programs and self-attestation of low- and moderate-income residential customers and supplementing P.L.2018, c.17 (C.48:3-87.8 et al.).

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

      1.   The Board of Public Utilities shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), rules and regulations to supplement the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to subsection  f. of section 5 of P.L.2018, c.17 (C.48:3-87.11) to allow low- and moderate-income residential customers to self-attest to the customer's income, in a form and manner to be determined by the board, as an acceptable income verification method for participation in a community solar program in this State established pursuant to P.L.2018, c.17 (C.48:3-87.8 et al.).

 

     2.    This act shall take effect on the first day of the seventh month next following enactment, except that the Board of Public Utilities may take anticipatory administrative action in advance as shall be necessary for the implementation of the act.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would require the Board of Public Utilities to promulgate rules and regulations to allow low- and moderate-income residential customers to self-attest to the residential customer's income for participation in a community solar program established pursuant to P.L.2018, c.17 (C.48:3-87.8 et al.).