PRINTER'S NO. 3086
No. 2162 Session of 2008
INTRODUCED BY KORTZ, EACHUS, BRENNAN, CALTAGIRONE, COHEN, CONKLIN, COSTA, CURRY, DePASQUALE, DERMODY, FABRIZIO, FREEMAN, GIBBONS, GOODMAN, GRUCELA, HARHAI, HARKINS, JOSEPHS, KOTIK, LEACH, LEVDANSKY, MAHONEY, MANN, MARKOSEK, MARSHALL, MELIO, M. O'BRIEN, PALLONE, PETRONE, PRESTON, RAMALEY, READSHAW, SANTONI, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH, K. SMITH, SOLOBAY, SURRA AND WALKO, JANUARY 15, 2008
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER AFFAIRS, JANUARY 15, 2008
AN ACT 1 Amending Title 66 (Public Utilities) of the Pennsylvania 2 Consolidated Statutes, providing for the recovery of certain 3 expenses by public utilities. 4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 5 hereby enacts as follows: 6 Section 1. Title 66 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated 7 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read: 8 § 1329. Recovery of certain labor relations expenses. 9 No public utility may charge its customers, as a permissible 10 operating expense, for ratemaking purposes any portion of the 11 direct or indirect cost of meetings, publications, consultants, 12 attorneys or other professional services and expenses associated 13 with the utility's efforts to dissuade the employees of the 14 utility, or the employees of any affiliated interest of the 15 utility as defined in section 2101 (relating to definition of 16 affiliated interest), from becoming or remaining a member in, or
1 otherwise being represented by, any labor union.
2 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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