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S3374 • 2026

Prohibits electric public utilities from billing customers for certain services during service interruptions and requires repair of certain street lights.

Prohibits electric public utilities from billing customers for certain services during service interruptions and requires repair of certain street lights.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Amato, Carmen F., Jr.
Last action
2026-02-05
Official status
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Economic Growth Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Prohibits electric public utilities from billing customers for certain services during service interruptions and requires repair of certain street lights.

Prohibits electric public utilities from billing customers for certain services during service interruptions and requires repair of certain street lights.

What This Bill Does

  • Prohibits electric public utilities from billing customers for certain services during service interruptions and requires repair of certain street lights.
  • Topic: Economic Growth Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-05 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Economic Growth Committee

Official Summary Text

Prohibits electric public utilities from billing customers for certain services during service interruptions and requires repair of certain street lights.
Topic:
Economic Growth
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S3374

SENATE, No. 3374

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 5, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� CARMEN F. AMATO, JR.

District 9 (Ocean)

SYNOPSIS

���� Prohibits electric public utilities from billing
customers for certain services during service interruptions and requires repair
of certain street lights.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

��

An Act

concerning 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.��� a.� As used in this
section:�

���� �Board� means the New Jersey
Board of Public Utilities or a successor agency.

���� �Electric public utility�
means a public utility, as that term is defined in R.S.48:2-13, that transmits
and distributes electricity to end users within the State.

���� �Service interruption� means
the cessation of electric service to a customer of an electric public utility.

���� b.��� Notwithstanding any law,
rule, regulation, or order to the contrary:�

���� (1)�� an electric public
utility shall not charge a customer for the usage or provision of electricity
during a service interruption; and

���� (2)�� for each billing cycle
in which one or more service interruptions occur, an electric public utility
shall reduce the amount of any fixed charges, which charges are not tied to a
customer�s electricity usage, on a customer�s monthly bill by an amount proportionate
to the length of time that a customer was without electric service due to a
service interruption.

���� c.���� An electric public
utility shall repair any damaged or otherwise defective street lights that are
under the jurisdiction of or otherwise maintained by the electric public
utility within 10 business days of the utility receiving notice that a street
light has been damaged or is otherwise defective.� Until a street light has
been repaired, an electric public utility shall not charge a customer for the
usage or provision of electricity to that street light or for any fixed charges
associated with the street light.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill prohibits an
electric public utility from charging a customer for the usage or provision of
electricity during a service interruption.� In addition, the bill requires an
electric public utility, for each billing cycle in which a service interruption
occurs, to reduce the amount of any fixed charges, which charges are not tied
to a customer�s electricity usage, on a customer�s monthly bill by an amount
proportionate to the length of time that a customer was without electric
service due to a service interruption.� Under the bill, �service interruption�
means the cessation of electricity service to a customer of an electric public
utility.

���� In addition, the bill requires
an electric public utility to repair any damaged or otherwise defective street
lights that are under the utility�s jurisdiction or otherwise maintained by the
utility within 10 business days of the utility receiving notice that a street
light has been damaged or is otherwise defective.� Under the bill, an electric
public utility is prohibited from charging a customer for electric service to
the street light until the repair has been completed.