HB1362 (2016) Detail

Requiring telephone notice where an electrical outage is expected to exceed 4 hours.


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HB 1362 - AS INTRODUCED

 

2016 SESSION

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\t06/04

 

HOUSE BILL\t1362

 

AN ACT\trequiring telephone notice where an electrical outage is expected to exceed 4 hours.

 

SPONSORS:\tRep. Hull, Graf. 9

 

COMMITTEE:\tScience, Technology and Energy

 

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ANALYSIS

 

\tThis bill requires electric utilities to give notice to customers by telephone when an electric outage is expected to exceed 4 hours.

 

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Explanation:\tMatter added to current law appears in bold italics.

\t\tMatter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

\t\tMatter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

\t16-2526

\t06/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

 

AN ACT\trequiring telephone notice where an electrical outage is expected to exceed 4 hours.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

\t1  New Subdivision; Notice of Electric Outage.  Amend RSA 374 by inserting after section 62 the following new subdivision:

Notice of Electric Outage

\t374:63  Notice of Electric Outage Required.  When any electric outage is expected to exceed 4 hours in duration, the electric utility shall give telephone notice to customers affected by such outage.

\t2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.