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Senate approves SB 28 requiring tiered water pricing and customer notices after debate on equity and tax impacts
Summary
The Utah Senate passed SB 28 to require increasing-block (tiered) pricing and customer notices for culinary water providers. Sponsors and other senators clarified the measure sets procedure, not specific price steps; questions focused on meter readiness and whether large-lot owners would face unfair penalties.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Senate on Tuesday passed Senate Bill 28, a measure requiring culinary water providers to adopt increasing-block (tiered) pricing and to provide annual customer notices explaining block-unit rates and billing cycles.
Senator Jenkins, sponsor of SB 28, framed the bill as procedural: "This is a process bill," he said, adding the law requires a method for pricing that makes clear when a customer’s usage moves into a higher-priced block. Jenkins said the intent is to encourage conservation by making the cost consequences of higher use transparent to customers.
The measure does not prescribe how large the step increases must be. Jenkins noted technicalities could allow providers to implement very small step increases but said the statute’s purpose…
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