Bill Text: VA HB379 | 2017 | Regular Session | Prefiled


Bill Title: Electric utility; customer account information, warrant required.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-12-01 - Left in Commerce and Labor [HB379 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2017-HB379-Prefiled.html
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HOUSE BILL NO. 379
Offered January 13, 2016
Prefiled January 6, 2016
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 19.2-59.2, relating to electric utility customer account information; warrant required.
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Patron-- Marshall, R.G.
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Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 19.2-59.2 as follows:

§19.2-59.2. Electric utility customer account information; warrant required.

A. For purposes of this section:

"Customer account information" means the customer's name, phone number, social security number, or other identifying information; the customer's address where electric utility service is provided; and the amount of electric utility service provided to a customer or the amount of money paid by the customer for such electric utility service.

"Electric utility" has the same meaning as provided in §56-576.

B. An electric utility shall not disclose any customer account information without the consent of the customer except pursuant to a search warrant issued by a judicial officer pursuant to §§19.2-52 and 19.2-54. However, an electric utility may release customer account information that has been transformed into a statistical or aggregate form that does not allow the identification of a particular customer. Evidence obtained in violation of this section is not admissible in any criminal or civil proceeding.

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