Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate on April 14, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 1531
AN ACT CONCERNING PUBLIC UTILITY TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE PUBLIC UTILITIES REGULATORY AUTHORITY.
What it does
The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.
To (1) deem certain public service companies a public agency for purposes of the Freedom of Information Act and not permit them to recover through rates costs of compliance with said act, (2) subject the Home Energy Solutions program to audit by the Auditors of Public Accounts, (3) modify the expertise and other requirements of utility commissioner appointments and impose revolving door and substantial conflict recusal requirements, (4) modify other processes of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, (5) prohibit certain mergers of utility companies, (6) prohibit a utility company from owning both gas and electric utilities, (7) prohibit a public utility company from imposing any fees that would discourage the adoption of grid-enhancing and energy-efficient technologies, (8) prohibit a right of first refusal to acquire property by a utility company, and (9) prohibit deceptive fees to utility end use customers.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
Its course
March 19 to April 14, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action9 actions on 5 days
In the SenateMar 19 to Apr 14 · stopped26 days
Government Administration and Elections CommitteeMar 19 to Mar 278 days
Votes
Yeas to nays, as the General Assembly recorded them. Committee votes are set in.
Government Administration and Elections Committee13–6
Mar 26
Who voted how
Yea Amy Morrin Bello, Christopher Rosario, Dominique Johnson, Gary A. Winfield, Gregory Haddad, Hilda E. Santiago, Mae Flexer, Matt Blumenthal, Melissa Osborne, Michael "MJ" Shannon Jr., Nicholas Menapace, Nick Gauthier, Paul Honig
Nay Christie M. Carpino, Gale L. Mastrofrancesco, Joe Hoxha, Martin Foncello, Rob Sampson, Seth Bronko
Text
Each version as the General Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.
In the Senate Mar 19 – Mar 27
- Mar 19Introduced and sent to Government Administration and Elections Committee
- Mar 20Heard in Government Administration and Elections Committee
- Mar 27Government Administration and Elections Committee recommended a substitute for it
All 9 actions, as published
- Mar 19REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses
- Mar 20PUBLIC HEARINGBoth houses
- Mar 27Joint Favorable SubstituteBoth houses
- Mar 27FILED WITH LCOBoth houses
- Apr 7REFERRED TO OLR, OFABoth houses
- Apr 14RPTD. OUT OF LCOBoth houses
- Apr 14FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.Senate
- Apr 14SENATE CALENDAR NUMBERSenate
- Apr 14FILE NO.Both houses