Pennsylvania HB 320: An Act amending Title 66 (Public Utilities) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in rates and distribution systems, further providing for voluntary changes in rates.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 277
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 320
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY CIRESI, HOWARD, HADDOCK, PROBST, DONAHUE, SANCHEZ,
HANBIDGE, FREEMAN, HILL-EVANS, CONKLIN, OTTEN, CERRATO AND
GREEN, JANUARY 27, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION, TECHNOLOGY AND
UTILITIES, JANUARY 27, 2025
AN ACT
Amending Title 66 (Public Utilities) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in rates and distribution systems,
further providing for voluntary changes in rates.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1308(a) of Title 66 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 1308. Voluntary changes in rates.
(a) General rule.--Unless the commission otherwise orders,
no public utility shall make any change in any existing and duly
established rate, except after 60 days notice to the commission,
which notice shall plainly state the changes proposed to be made
in the rates then in force, and the time when the changed rates
will go into effect. The public utility shall also give such
notice of the proposed changes to other interested persons as
the commission in its discretion may direct. Such notices
regarding the proposed changes which are provided to the
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utility's customers shall be in plain understandable language as
the commission shall prescribe. Any communication by a public
utility to a utility customer that includes a notification of a
proposed rate change shall call attention, in conspicuous type,
to the fact tha t a proposed rate change is contained in the
mailing on the face of the notice's envelope or on the outside
of the mailing if no envelope is used. All proposed changes
shall be shown by filing new tariffs, or supplements to existing
tariffs filed and in force at the time. The commission, for good
cause shown, may allow changes in rates, without requiring the
60 days notice, under such conditions as it may prescribe.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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