Bill Text: NH SB463 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to aggregation of electric utility customers.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-16 - Vacated from Committee and Laid on Table, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; 06/16/2020 Senate Journal 8 [SB463 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2020-SB463-Introduced.html
SB 463 - AS INTRODUCED
2020 SESSION
20-2882
08/10
SENATE BILL 463
AN ACT relative to aggregation of electric utility customers.
SPONSORS: Sen. French, Dist 7; Sen. Gray, Dist 6; Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20; Sen. Giuda, Dist 2; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17; Sen. Bradley, Dist 3; Rep. Plumer, Belk. 6
COMMITTEE: Energy and Natural Resources
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ANALYSIS
This bill defines how certain payments of electric utility customers in municipal aggregations shall be applied.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
20-2882
08/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty
AN ACT relative to aggregation of electric utility customers.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Aggregation of Electric Customers; Regulation. Amend RSA 53-E:4 by inserting after paragraph VI the following new paragraph:
VII. For the purposes of billing aggregated retail electricity customers under this chapter and through the consolidated billing function of a distribution utility, when a customer makes a payment for less than the full amount billed, such payment shall be applied as follows:
(a) First to any outstanding customer loans or deposit obligations with the utility;
(b) Next to any utility current payment arrangement obligations;
(c) Next to any utility budget billing arrangement obligations;
(d) Next to the aged accounts receivable of any utility and aggregator or competitive electricity supplier serving an aggregation, in proportion to the balance due on such aged accounts receivable;
(e) Next to the current charges of any utility and aggregator or competitive electricity supplier serving an aggregation, in proportion to the balance due on such current charges; and
(f) Finally, to any other charges due on the utility bill as may be provided by utility tariffs.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
