Sponsored by:
Assemblyman WAYNE P. DEANGELO
District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)
Assemblyman KEVIN P. EGAN
District 17 (Middlesex and Somerset)
Assemblywoman ELIANA PINTOR MARIN
District 29 (Essex and Hudson)
SYNOPSIS
Requires State agencies that administer utility bill payment assistance or energy efficiency programs to review and increase income thresholds for residential customers to participate in programs.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act requiring an increase to income thresholds for certain utility bill payment assistance and energy efficiency programs.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Within one year of the effective date of P.L. , c. (pending before the Legislature as this bill), the Department of Community Affairs, Department of Human Services, Board of Public Utilities, and any other State agency that administers a utility bill payment assistance program or energy efficiency program active upon the effective date of P.L. , c. (pending before the Legislature as this bill) shall review and increase the income threshold for residential customers to participate in those programs. A State agency may request public comment, in a form and manner determined by that State agency, or seek assistance from other State agencies, to determine an appropriate increase to the program’s income threshold.
2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire upon the date of the final income threshold increase required of a State agency.
STATEMENT
This bill requires, within one year of the effective date of the bill, the Department of Community Affairs, Department of Human Services, Board of Public Utilities, and any other State agency that administers a utility bill payment assistance program or energy efficiency program active upon the effective date of the bill to review and increase the income threshold for residential customers to participate in those programs. A State agency may request public comment, in a form and manner determined by that State agency, or seek assistance from other State agencies, to determine an appropriate increase to the program’s income threshold.