Connecticut 2013 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB06470 Compare Versions

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11 General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6470
22 January Session, 2013 LCO No. 3459
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1010 Raised Bill No. 6470
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1212 January Session, 2013
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2424 AN ACT CONCERNING CLARITY OF RETAIL ELECTRIC OFFERING TERMS.
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2626 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
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2828 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 Subdivision (3) of subsection (f) of section 16-245o of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
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3030 (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.
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3535 This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
3636 Section 1 from passage 16-245o(f)(3)
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3838 This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
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4646 Statement of Purpose:
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4848 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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5050 [Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]