HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(a)  Any STEAM HEATING, gas, or electric utility which
directly passes on to its customers any change in its fuel
costs, costs of purchased power, or costs of purchased gas
is required each month to verify and justify the adjusted
costs to the Commission. The Commission shall conduct a
public evidentiary hearing no less frequently than once
every six months on these changes. The Commission shall
order a utility to charge off and amortize, by means of a
temporary decrease of rates any charges it finds were
unjustified upon the failure of the company to show that its
charges were based solely on increased fuel purchased power
or purchased gas costs or upon the failure of the company to
follow competitive practices in the procurement and
purchasing of said fuel, purchased power, or purchased gas
or upon a showing that the company was unreasonable in its
fuel procurement and purchasing practices.

(b)  This section shall apply to electric fuel rate
adjustment clauses of those electric companies not subject
to the provisions of § 54F, TO THE FUEL RATE ADJUSTMENT
CLAUSES OF STEAM HEATING COMPANIES, and to all purchased
power adjustment clauses and all purchased gas adjustment
clauses.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved May 4, 1982.

CHAPTER 156

(House Bill 109)

AN ACT concerning

Medical Review Committees - Confidentiality

FOR the purpose of specifying that the proceedings, records,
and files of a medical review committee are not
discoverable or admissible into evidence in a health
care malpractice claim.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Health Occupations
Section 14-601(d)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1981 Volume and 1981 Supplement)