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Senate committee advances bill to expand low‑income protections, require billing transparency and pilot performance‑based ratemaking
Summary
The Senate Utilities Committee advanced House Bill 1002 after amending requirements for levelized billing, heat‑related disconnection protections, reporting and a limited performance‑based, multiyear rate framework to encourage affordability and reliability while leaving implementation details to the IURC.
Representative Schonkweiler presented House Bill 1002 to the Senate Utilities Committee as a package aimed at improving utility affordability, transparency and regulatory outcomes for customers. The measure would expand low‑income assistance, standardize billing disclosures, strengthen heat‑related disconnection protections, authorize measured performance‑based rate making (PBR) and permit multiyear rate plans under IURC oversight.
Supporters, including Kerwin Olson of the Citizens Action Coalition, the Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter, Hoosier Environmental Council, Indiana Conservation Voters, Earth Charter Indiana and AARP Indiana, praised HB 1002’s focus on protections for vulnerable Hoosiers and quarterly reporting. "The requirement for electric…
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