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.

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
 1   Amending Title 66 (Public Utilities) of the Pennsylvania
 2      Consolidated Statutes, in rates and distribution systems,
 3      further providing for voluntary changes in rates.
 4      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 5   hereby enacts as follows:
 6      Section 1.    Section 1308(a) of Title 66 of the Pennsylvania
 7   Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
 8   § 1308.   Voluntary changes in rates.
 9      (a)    General rule.--Unless the commission otherwise orders,
10   no public utility shall make any change in any existing and duly
11   established rate, except after 60 days notice to the commission,
12   which notice shall plainly state the changes proposed to be made
13   in the rates then in force, and the time when the changed rates
14   will go into effect. The public utility shall also give such
15   notice of the proposed changes to other interested persons as
16   the commission in its discretion may direct. Such notices
17   regarding the proposed changes which are provided to the
 1   utility's customers shall be in plain understandable language as
 2   the commission shall prescribe. Any communication by a public
 3   utility to a utility customer that includes a notification of a
 4   proposed rate change shall call attention, in conspicuous type,
 5   to the fact that a proposed rate change is contained in the
 6   mailing on the face of the notice's envelope or on the outside
 7   of the mailing if no envelope is used. All proposed changes
 8   shall be shown by filing new tariffs, or supplements to existing
 9   tariffs filed and in force at the time. The commission, for good
10   cause shown, may allow changes in rates, without requiring the
11   60 days notice, under such conditions as it may prescribe.
12      * * *
13      Section 2.   This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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