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                                                      PRINTER'S NO. 3086

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

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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