This bill aims to prohibit electric and gas public utilities in New Jersey from implementing or maintaining a customer charge for residential customers. A customer charge is defined as a fixed fee that utilities assess to recover administrative costs related to account management, such as meter reading, billing, and service line maintenance. The bill specifies that this prohibition applies regardless of any existing laws, rules, or regulations.

The legislation is set to take effect immediately upon passage. By eliminating the customer charge, the bill seeks to alleviate financial burdens on residential utility customers, ensuring that they are not charged fixed fees unrelated to their actual consumption of electricity or gas.