PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 581, 594 PRINTER'S NO. 728
No. 35 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY LYNCH, HANKINS, ROSS, SINGEL, MELLOW, STAPLETON,
STOUT, BODACK, ZEMPRELLI, MUSTO, SCANLON, BELL, LOEPER AND
FUMO, MARCH 22, 1983
AS AMENDED, APRIL 8, 1983
A RESOLUTION
1 Directing the Joint State Government Commission to study and
2 report on dividing the Public Utility Commission into two
3 separate entities.
4 WHEREAS, The increasing high costs of utility service is
5 having a greater adverse effect upon the economy and residents
6 of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and
7 WHEREAS, The Public Utility Commission is empowered to
8 regulate a wide variety of utility enterprises; and
9 WHEREAS, The wide range of responsibilities exercised by the
10 Public Utility Commission dilutes MAY DILUTE its expertise and <--
11 reduces REDUCE its ability to effectively regulate all public <--
12 utilities; and
13 WHEREAS, The people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania would <--
14 MAY be better served by a regulatory body BODIES with more <--
15 strictly defined responsibilities; therefore be it
16 RESOLVED, That the Senate of Pennsylvania directs the Joint
17 State Government Commission to investigate and prepare a report
18 within 180 days on the feasibility, benefits and costs of a
1 division of the Public Utility Commission into two separate
2 entities, one to regulate transportation-related utilities and
3 the other to retain all other current responsibilities of the
4 Public Utility Commission.
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