PRINTER'S NO. 411

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 389 Session of 1979


        INTRODUCED BY BROWN, GIAMMARCO AND COHEN, FEBRUARY 20, 1979

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FEBRUARY 21, 1979

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 66 (Public Utilities) of the Pennsylvania
     2     Consolidated Statutes, providing for electric utility rate
     3     increase denial in certain circumstances.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Title 66, act of November 25, 1970 (P.L.707,
     7  No.230), known as the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, is
     8  amended by adding a section to read:
     9  § 1308.1.  Denial of rate increase.
    10     No electric utility shall be granted a rate increase if the
    11  commission and a private auditing firm or auditor have
    12  determined that said electric utility has a fuel over-charge
    13  owed to the consumers of said utility.
    14     Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.




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