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Representative Hedrick introduces bill to bar municipal convenience fees for utility payments
Summary
Representative Troy Hedrick introduced H.265 to the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee on Feb. 28, a bill that would ban convenience and processing fees for online municipal utility payments and require municipalities to absorb those costs.
Representative Troy Hedrick introduced H.265 to the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee on Feb. 28, a bill that would prevent municipal utilities from imposing convenience or processing fees on customers who pay bills using online or electronic methods.
“This is bill H.265 eliminating convenience fees on municipal utility payments,” Hedrick said, and described the measure as born of constituent concern over fees added to online payments.
Under the bill as Hedrick outlined it, municipal utilities would be barred from charging additional processing or convenience fees for online payments. Municipalities would be required to absorb the resulting costs in their operating budgets rather than passing them directly to individual ratepayers. The measure…
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