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- 83rd Session (2025)
Senate Bill No. 442–Committee on
Growth and Infrastructure
CHAPTER..........
AN ACT relating to public utilities; requiring the Public Utilities
Commission of Nevada to adopt regulations to require a
public utility to make available to the public certain reports
containing information regarding terminations of utility
service to residential customers; and providing other matters
properly relating thereto.
Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
Existing law requires the Publ ic Utilities Commission of Nevada to adopt or
amend certain regulations relating to a public utility terminating the gas, water or
electric utilities of a residential customer. (NRS 704.1835) This bill requires the
Commission to adopt regulations that require a public utility to make available to
the public a quarterly report concerning such terminations of utility services.
Specifically, this bill requires that the report include: (1) the total number of
monthly terminations of utility services of residential customers during the previous
quarter; and (2) aggregated information concerning the residential customers whose
utility service was terminated, which must include the zip code of such residences.
EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. NRS 704.1835 is hereby amended to read as
follows:
704.1835 1. For the purposes of protecting the health of
residential customers who receive gas, water or electricity from
public utilities, the Commission shall adopt or amend regulations
that:
(a) Establish the criteria that will be used to determine when a
public utility is required to postpone its termination of utility service
to the residence of a residential customer who has failed to pay for
such service. Such criteria may be based in part upo n the residential
customer’s ability to pay.
(b) Require a public utility to postpone its termination of utility
service to the residence of a residential customer who has failed to
pay for such service if the residential customer satisfies the criteria
established by the Commission and termination of the utility service
is reasonably likely to threaten the health of an occupant of the
residence of the residential customer.
2. In addition to the regulations adopted pursuant to subsection
1, for the purpo ses of regulating public utilities that provide gas,
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water or electricity to landlords who pay for the utility service and
who distribute or resell the gas, water or electricity to one or more
residential tenants, the Commission shall adopt or amend
regulations to require a public utility to use its best efforts to post, in
a conspicuous location, notice of the intent of the public utility to
terminate utility service because the landlord has failed to pay for
such service. Such notice must provide sufficie nt information to
allow residential tenants or their occupants to contact the public
utility if termination of the utility service is reasonably likely to
threaten the health of an occupant of the residence of a residential
tenant.
3. The Commission shal l adopt regulations that require a
public utility, on or before the last day of the first month of each
calendar quarter, to make available to the public a report that
includes:
(a) The total number of monthly terminations of utility service
to the residences of residential customers during the previous
quarter; and
(b) Aggregated information concerning the residential
customers described in paragraph (a), which must include the zip
code of such residences.
4. A public utility shall not terminate utility service for gas,
water or electricity without complying with the regulations adopted
by the Commission pursuant to this section.
[4.] 5. As used in this section:
(a) “Gas” includes, without limitation, liquefied petroleum gas
and natural gas.
(b) “Landlord” means a landlord who is subject, in whole or in
part, to the provisions of chapter 118A or 118B of NRS.
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