PRINTER'S NO. 278
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 322
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 Public Utility Commission, further
3 providing for consumer protection and information.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 308.1 of Title 66 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
8 § 308.1. Consumer protection and information.
9 * * *
10 (c) Public comments.--Any notice of a proposed rate change
11 or system acquisition required to be sent to utility customers
12 by the public utility or applicant shall include instructions on
13 how to submit comments on the proposed rate change or system
14 acquisition to the commission by mail and electronically. The
15 commission shall, at a minimum, accept comments by mail and
16 electronically, either through email or submission through a
17 publicly accessible Internet website.
1 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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Statutes/Laws affected:
Printer's No. 0278: 66-308.1