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A1241 • 2026

Requires electric public utilities to establish toll-free telephone number to be used by public for reporting damaged equipment and dangerous vegetation.

Requires electric public utilities to establish toll-free telephone number to be used by public for reporting damaged equipment and dangerous vegetation.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Inganamort, Michael
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires electric public utilities to establish toll-free telephone number to be used by public for reporting damaged equipment and dangerous vegetation.

Requires electric public utilities to establish toll-free telephone number to be used by public for reporting damaged equipment and dangerous vegetation.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires electric public utilities to establish toll-free telephone number to be used by public for reporting damaged equipment and dangerous vegetation.
  • Topic: Telecommunications and Utilities Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires electric public utilities to establish toll-free telephone number to be used by public for reporting damaged equipment and dangerous vegetation.
Topic:
Telecommunications and Utilities
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1241

ASSEMBLY, No. 1241

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman MICHAEL INGANAMORT

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

Assemblywoman DAWN FANTASIA

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires electric public utilities to establish
toll-free telephone number to be used by public for reporting damaged equipment
and dangerous vegetation.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.

��

An Act

concerning certain communication measures by
electric public utilities and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes.

����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� As used in P.L.��� ,
c.��� (C.������� ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill):

���� �Dangerous vegetation� means a
tree, or portion thereof, and any other vegetation which touches or otherwise
interferes with the distribution infrastructure of an electric public utility,
as determined by the utility.

���� "Distribution infrastructure"
means a wire, line, pole, or other appurtenant equipment used by an electric
public utility to provide electric distribution service from a substation of
the utility to a customer, but shall not include a service line and its
appurtenant equipment to an individual customer.

���� "Electric public utility"
or �utility� means a public utility, as that term is defined in R.S.48:2-13,
that is investor-owned, and operates an electricity distribution system in this
State.

���� 2.��� a.�� An electric public
utility shall establish and maintain a toll-free telephone number that may be
used by the public to report to the utility the existence of broken or
otherwise damaged distribution infrastructure of the utility or the presence or
threat of dangerous vegetation to the utility�s distribution infrastructure.

���� b.��� An electric public
utility shall publish the toll-free telephone number required, pursuant to
subsection a. of this section, and an explanation of the purpose of the
toll-free telephone number, on every periodic bill sent to each customer of the
utility and in a prominent location on the homepage of the utility�s Internet
website.

���� 3.��� This act shall take
effect immediately, but shall remain inoperative for 60 days following the date
of enactment.

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires an electric
public utility (utility) to establish and maintain a toll-free telephone number
that may be used by the public to report to the utility the existence of broken
or otherwise damaged �distribution infrastructure� of the utility or the
presence or threat of �dangerous vegetation� to the utility�s distribution
infrastructure, as those terms are defined in the bill.� The utility is to
publish the toll-free telephone number and an explanation of the purpose of the
toll-free telephone number on every periodic bill sent to each customer of the
utility and in a prominent location on the homepage of the utility�s Internet
website.