Utilities would stop charging certain payment and paper bill fees

Public utilities would be barred from adding these payment processing surcharges. The ban would cover charges added when customers pay to recover a public utility’s costs for using outside payment processors. Credit card processing fees would fall outside this surcharge ban. The surcharge ban would take effect immediately if the bill becomes law.

Public utilities would be barred from charging fees for these payment and billing choices. This would cover customers who do not enroll in automatic payments and choose one-time payments, or who do not enroll in paperless statements and choose paper statements. These fee bans would take effect immediately if the bill becomes law.