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IN SB0274
Bill
AI Summary
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Public and municipally owned electric and natural gas utilities must submit annual reports to the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) with data on customer accounts and low-income customer accounts.
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Reports must include aggregate data on account numbers, billing amounts, delinquencies, disconnections, payment plans, budget billing arrangements, and uncollectible accounts for both regular and low-income customers, without identifying individual customers.
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The IURC cannot require utilities to disclose confidential and proprietary business information without adequate protection measures.
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The IURC must adopt rules and emergency rules to implement these reporting requirements, effective no later than January 1, 2017.
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Beginning in 2017, the IURC shall annually compile and summarize utility data in its annual report to the interim study committee on energy, utilities, and telecommunications.
Legislative Description
Annual customer reports by energy utilities. Requires a public or municipally owned electric or natural gas utility to annually report to the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) certain data concerning customer accounts and low income customer accounts. Provides that: (1) a utility shall report all required information in the aggregate and in a manner that does not identify individual customers and low income customers; and (2) the IURC may not require utilities to disclose confidential and proprietary business information without adequate protection of the information. Authorizes the IURC to adopt rules and emergency rules to implement these provisions. Provides that,
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities
1/7/2016