Economy

Re: 2011 Senate Bill 864 (Impose utility surcharge for low income subsidies)

TaterSalad — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:16:37 GMT

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Re: 2011 Senate Bill 864 (Impose utility surcharge for low income subsidies)

charle — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:55:33 GMT

From Charle. There are many low income families that pay their utilitie bills, and now your going to make them pay a surcharge for those that are unable to pay. I belive this is good to take care of the poor but what about those that are just making it now.

2011 Senate Bill 864 (Impose utility surcharge for low income subsidies)

Votes Admin — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:30:21 GMT

Introduced in the Senate on December 1, 2011, to create a state fund to collect money from a proposed mandate that utilities impose an extra surcharge on customer bills to subsidize paying the delinquent bills of low income households. This had been mandated in an earlier statute that was later repealed, and this bill would also refund money collected after that law expired. Reportedly this will impose around $60 million in extra charges on consumer gas and electric bills. On the same day House passed a rival bill (HB 5189) to use federal welfare money to provide these subsidies this year

The vote was 34 in favor, 2 opposed and 2 not voting

(Senate Roll Call 742 at Senate Journal 0)

Click here to view bill details.