New Hampshire HB 1577: relative to the disclosure of utility customer data to municipalities for emergency response planning.

Bill Text

HB 1577 - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

5Mar2026... 0733h

05/07/2026 1599s

2026 SESSION

 26-2890

 06/09

HOUSE BILL 1577

AN ACT relative to the disclosure of utility customer data to municipalities for emergency response planning.

SPONSORS: Rep. Drye, Sull. 7; Rep. Tenczar, Hills. 1; Rep. Foote, Rock. 13; Rep. Girard, Sull. 6; Rep. Bridle, Rock. 29; Rep. Roy, Rock. 31

COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 This bill allows service providers to share individual customer data with a municipality's authorized public safety officials for emergency coordination purposes.

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 Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

5Mar2026... 0733h

05/07/2026 1599s 26-2890

 06/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT relative to the disclosure of utility customer data to municipalities for emergency response planning.

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

 1 Customer Data in Emergency Situations. Amend RSA 363:38, V(b) to read as follows: 

 (b) Nothing in this section shall preclude a service provider from disclosing a customer's individual data to a third party for system, grid, or operational needs, coordination with a municipality's authorized public safety officials, or the research, development, and implementation of new rate structures and tariffs, demand response, customer assistance, energy management, or energy efficiency programs, provided that the service provider for contracts entered into after January 1, 2017, has required by contract that the third party implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information, to protect the personal information from unauthorized access, use, destruction, modification, or disclosure, and to prohibit the use of the data for a secondary commercial purpose not related to the primary purpose of the contract without the express consent of the customer. Disclosure of a customer's data to a municipality's authorized public safety officials shall be exempt under RSA 91-A:5, IV.

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