An Act To Direct Electric Utilities To Provide Comparative Usage Data on Customer Billing Statements
Maine Legislature, Session 129, LD 0581
Committee Amendment CA_A_H108 (House)
Amends: 35-A MRSA §3106

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" It" to H.P. 425, L.D. 581, Bill, "An Act To Direct 
Electric Utilities To Provide Comparative Usage Data on Customer Billing Statements" 
Amend the bill by strildng out everything after the enacting clause and inserting the 
following: 
'Sec. 1. 35-A MRSA §3106 is enacted to read: 
§3106. Comparative usage data on billing statements 
1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the 
following meanings. 
A. "Comparative usage data" means data regarding a customer's energy usage for the 
previous 24 months that compares each month's usage between the first 12 months 
and the 2nd 12 months of usage. 
B. "Medium commercial customer" means a nonresidential customer that meets the 
availability criteria to take service under a core customer class of the transmission 
and distribution utility that includes a demand charge and in which a customer's 
maximum demand does not exceed 500 ldlowatts or the utility's ldlowatt break-point 
between classes that is closest to but does not exceed 500 ldlowatts, whichever is 
lower. 
C. "Residential customer" means a customer defined as residential under the terms 
and conditions of the transmission and distribution utility. 
D. "Small commercial customer" means a nomesidential customer that meets the 
availability criteria to take service under a core customer class of the transmission 
and distribution utility that does not include a demand charge. 
2. 
Billing statements. Except as provided in subsection 3, an investor-owned 
transmission and distribution utility shall provide comparative usage data on customer 
billing statements of residential customers, small commercial customers and medium 
commercial customers. 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ·A" to H.P. 425, L.D. 581 
3. Waiver. The commission, by rule or order, may waive the requirements of this 
section for an investor-owned transmission and distribution utility for the portion of the 
service territory of that utility that is located in an area of this State in which the retail 
market is administered by the independent system administrator for northern Maine if the 
commission finds that implementation· of the requirements of this section is unduly 
burdensome or cost-prohibitive in that portion of the utility's service territory.' 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or 
section number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment limits the applicability of the requirements of the bill to investor-
owned transmission and distribution utilities, rather than all transmission and distribution 
utilities, and to customer bills for residential, small commercial and medium commercial 
customers, rather than all customers. The amendment also allows the Public Utilities 
Commission to waive the requirements if it finds these requirements to be unduly 
burdensome or cost-prohibitive for an investor-owned transmission and distribution 
utility for the portion of the utility's service territory located in an area of this State in 
which the retail market is administered by the independent system administrator for 
northern Maine. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 03/07/19 ;:,wac 
LD 581 
LR 1843(02) 
An Act To Direct Electric Utilities To Provide Comparative Usage Data on Customer Billing 
Statements 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment Ji' (H-JtJ~) 
Committee: Energy Utilities and Technology 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Minor cost increase - Other Special Revenue Funds 
Any additional costs incuned by the Public Utilities Commission to adopt rnles requiring additional reporting 
requirements by investor-owned transmission and distribution utilities on residential, small commercial and medium 
commercial customer billing notices are anticipated to be minor and can be absorbed within existing budgeted 
resources. 
Investor-owned transmission and distribution utilities may incur additional costs to update billing systems to 
implement the additional informational requirements on customer billing notices. These costs may be passed on to 
electric utility customers through scheduled rate cases. The amount of these costs cannot be dete1mined at this time. 
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