Sponsored by:
Assemblyman DAVID BAILEY, JR.
District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)
SYNOPSIS
Requires electric public utilities to notify customers of Residential Universal Bill Credit.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the Residential Universal Bill Credit and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. An electric public utility, as that term is defined in section 3 of P.L.1999, c.23 (C.48:3-51), shall notify, for each billing cycle in which a Residential Universal Bill Credit is applied, a residential customer that the bill credit has been applied to the residential customer’s bill statement for that billing cycle and of the amount of the bill credit. The notification issued pursuant to this section shall be included as language within a customer’s bill statement, which language shall be: written in a bold typeface in a font size no less than one point larger than the font size of the rest of the bill statement; enclosed in a text box; and displayed conspicuously in a prominent location within the first page of the bill statement.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires an electric public utility to notify, in each billing cycle in which a Residential Universal Bill Credit is applied, a residential customer that the bill credit has been applied to the customer’s bill statement for that billing cycle and of the amount of the bill credit. Under the bill, the notification is to be included as language written and displayed conspicuously on the first page of a customer’s bill statement.