General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6470
January Session, 2013 LCO No. 3459
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Referred to Committee on ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Introduced by:
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General Assembly
Raised Bill No. 6470
January Session, 2013
LCO No. 3459
*03459_______ET_*
Referred to Committee on ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Introduced by:
(ET)
AN ACT CONCERNING CLARITY OF RETAIL ELECTRIC OFFERING TERMS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subdivision (3) of subsection (f) of section 16-245o of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
(3) No electric supplier, aggregator or agent of an electric supplier or aggregator shall advertise or disclose the price of electricity to mislead a reasonable person into believing that the electric generation services portion of the bill will be the total bill amount for the delivery of electricity to the customer's location. When advertising or disclosing the price for electricity, the electric supplier, aggregator or agent of an electric supplier or aggregator shall (A) also disclose the electric distribution company's current charges, including the competitive transition assessment and the systems benefits charge, for that customer class, and (B) indicate, in a conspicuous part of any advertisement or disclosure that includes an advertised price, the expiration of the term of such advertised price using the same font size and color as is used for the advertised price.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage 16-245o(f)(3)
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
from passage
16-245o(f)(3)
Statement of Purpose:
To require retail electric suppliers to indicate, in any advertisement or disclosure that includes an advertised price, the length of term of the advertised price as prominently as the advertised price itself.
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