PRINTER'S NO. 2924
No. 2231 Session of 2000
INTRODUCED BY CHADWICK, FEBRUARY 7, 2000
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FEBRUARY 7, 2000
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 66 (Public Utilities) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for billing
3 procedures.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1509 of Title 66 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 1509. Billing procedures.
9 All bills rendered by a public utility as defined in
10 paragraph (1)(i), (ii), (vi) or (vii) of the definition of
11 "public utility" in section 102 (relating to definitions) to its
12 service customers, except bills for installation charges, shall
13 allow at least 15 days for nonresidential customers and 20 days
14 for residential customers from the date of transmittal of the
15 bill for payment without incurring any late payment penalty
16 charges therefor. All customers shall be permitted to receive
17 bills monthly and shall be notified of their right thereto. All
18 bills shall be itemized to separately show amounts for basic
1 service, Federal excise taxes, applicable State sales and gross
2 receipts taxes, to the extent practicable, fuel adjustment
3 charge, if any, State tax adjustment charge or such other
4 similar components of the total bill as the commission may
5 order. Any electric or gas public utility billing customers on a
6 bimonthly [or], quarterly or seasonal basis and rendering
7 interim statements or bills each month shall include in such
8 interim statement or bill the seasonal factor percent for the
9 applicable billing period and amount for the fuel adjustment
10 charge based upon one-half of the total expected bimonthly
11 kilowatt hour or cubic foot billing or one-third of the total
12 expected quarterly billing and using the fuel adjustment charge
13 rate applicable in the month of the interim statement or bill.
14 At the time of preparing the bimonthly or quarterly bill, an
15 appropriate adjustment shall be made in the total fuel
16 adjustment charge billing for the period. Any public utility
17 rendering bills on a bimonthly [basis or], quarterly or seasonal
18 basis shall calculate the fuel adjustment charge per kilowatt
19 hour or cubic foot for the entire period as the weighted average
20 of the two monthly rates or the three monthly rates whichever is
21 applicable.
22 Section 2. All acts and parts of acts are repealed insofar
23 as they are inconsistent with this act.
24 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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