ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 837

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED:  JUNE 4, 2018

      The Assembly Appropriations Committee reports favorably Assembly Bill No. 837 (1R).

     This bill requires a public utility to charge a veterans’ organization a residential rate for service delivered to the property at which the veterans’ organization primarily operates, if the residential rate is lower than the commercial rate for service at that property.  Under the bill, a public utility, in consultation with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, is to establish a reasonable procedure by which an organization may certify itself as a veterans’ organization with the public utility for the purposes of this bill.

FISCAL IMPACT:

      This bill has not been certified as requiring a fiscal note.