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MI HB4977
Bill
Status
9/17/2025
Primary Sponsor
Reggie Miller
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AI Summary
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Requires electric utilities to disclose on customer bills or bill inserts the number of service interruptions, total hours of interruption, and number of momentary interruptions (under 5 minutes) during each billing cycle
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Authorizes the Public Service Commission to impose fines up to $1,000 per violation for utilities that fail to comply with disclosure requirements
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Allows customer attestation of service interruptions to serve as sufficient evidence, with utilities permitted to rebut using meter data
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Mandates annual reporting to the commission by March 1 including causes of outages affecting more than 1,000 customers, tree trimming projections and accomplishments by location, and grid hardening projects completed
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Requires utilities to identify their worst-performing 20% of circuits using standard reliability metrics (SAIDI, SAIFI, CAIDI) and make this information publicly available
Legislative Description
Public utilities: consumer services; disclosure on electric utility bills of the number of power outages that occurred within that billing cycle; require. Amends 1939 PA 3 (MCL 460.1 - 460.11) by adding sec. 9e.
Public utilities: electric utilities
Last Action
Bill Electronically Reproduced 09/17/2025
9/18/2025