HB 2131 — An Act amending Title 66 (Public Utilities) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in restructuring of electric utility industry, further providing for duties of electric distribution companies.

PRINTER'S NO.   2788

                       THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                           HOUSE BILL
                           No. 2131
                                                 Session of
                                                   2026

     INTRODUCED BY BOYD, FIEDLER, WAXMAN, MALAGARI, HILL-EVANS,
        FREEMAN, KHAN, McNEILL, MADDEN, PROBST, BRENNAN, BOROWSKI,
        DONAHUE, OTTEN, RIVERA, CEPEDA-FREYTIZ AND INGLIS,
        JANUARY 12, 2026

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION, TECHNOLOGY AND
        UTILITIES, JANUARY 23, 2026


                                      AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 66 (Public Utilities) of the Pennsylvania
 2      Consolidated Statutes, in restructuring of electric utility
 3      industry, further providing for duties of electric
 4      distribution companies.
 5      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 6   hereby enacts as follows:
 7      Section 1.      Section 2807(e) of Title 66 of the Pennsylvania
 8   Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a paragraph to read:
 9   § 2807.    Duties of electric distribution companies.
10      * * *
11      (e)    Obligation to serve.--A default service provider's
12   obligation to provide electric generation supply service
13   following the expiration of a generation rate cap specified
14   under section 2804(4) (relating to standards for restructuring
15   of electric industry) or a restructuring plan under section
16   2806(f) is revised as follows:
17             * * *
 1        (8)   If a customer served by an electric generation
 2    supplier fails to take affirmative steps to enter into a new
 3    contract by the date of termination of the customer's
 4    existing fixed duration contract with an electric generation
 5    supplier, the electric generation supplier shall
 6    automatically return the customer's service to the default
 7    service provider and charge a rate at the default service
 8    provider's then-applicable default service rate. Within 60
 9    days of the effective date of this paragraph, the commission
10    shall issue an order requiring each electric distribution
11    company to submit a compliance filing to implement the
12    requirement under this paragraph.
13    * * *
14    Section 2.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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