S.1174

Prohibits utilities from charging customers on budget billing plans for service during major emergency events.

Prohibits electric and gas public utilities from collecting payment from residential budget billing plan customers whose service was interrupted as a result of a major emergency event. The bill defines "major emergency event" as a natural or humanly caused occurrence, such as a thunderstorm, earthquake, or flood, that results in a sustained service interruption to at least five percent of the customers within an operating area or a municipality or county.