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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor
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H.B. 299
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Department of Housing and Community Development; renaming a certain
program; requiring certain funds to be transferred by the Department of Human
Resources to the Department of Housing and Community Development on a
certain date; and generally relating to the electric universal service program.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Public Utility Companies
Section 7-512.1
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Volume and 2004 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Housing and Community Development
Section 2-102
Annotated Code of Maryland
(As enacted by Chapter___(H.B. 11) of the Acts of the General Assembly of
2005)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Public Utility Companies
7-512.1.
(a) (1) The Commission shall establish [a] AN ELECTRIC universal service
program to assist electric customers with annual incomes at or below 150% of the
federal poverty level.
(2) [The Department of Human Resources shall be responsible for
administering the universal service program through the Office of Home Energy
Programs.
(3) The Department of Human Resources may, with input from a panel
or roundtable of interested parties, contract with a for-profit or a nonprofit Maryland
corporation existing as of July 1, 1999 to assist in administering the universal service
program.
(4) The Commission shall have oversight responsibility for the universal
service program.
(5)] The components of the ELECTRIC universal service program shall
include:
(i) bill assistance, at a minimum of 50% of the determined need;
(ii) low-income weatherization; and
(iii) the retirement of arrearages for electric customers who have not
previously received assistance in retiring arrearages under the universal service
program, not to exceed a total of $1.5 million in any given fiscal year.
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