2011 House Bill 5190 ↩

Senate Roll Call 840: Passed

To prohibit utilities from charging customers extra to pay the delinquent bills of low income households, but only starting nine months after the bill becomes law. The surcharge had been authorized in a provision of an earlier statute that was later repealed. Money the utilities have already collected for this would be returned to customers. The final version of this bill, plus Senate Bill 364 and 864, include different parts of a House-Senate compromise to extend the surcharge as described, plus add $10 million in state "general fund" tax revenue, to pay the subsidies this year.