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Read. Follow. Verify.Connecticut bill shifts electric customer public benefits charges to the General Fund
Last action · February 4, 2026: Referred to Joint Committee on Energy and TechnologySponsors: Vincent J. Candelora and 15 others
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What This Bill Proposed
Proposed Bill 5028 removes the from residential and commercial electric bills and requires the state's General Fund to cover those costs instead.
Lowers monthly electric utility bills for end-use customers by shifting a specific fee-funded category of expenses onto state taxpayers through the General Fund.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
electric distribution company customers
state taxpayers
Taxpayers fund the General Fund, which becomes responsible for paying the costs previously collected directly on utility bills.
Key Facts
- Removes the Combined Public Benefits Charge from electric bills for end use customers of each electric distribution company.
- Requires that the cost of such public benefits charges be paid from the state's General Fund.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
1 action- Feb 4, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyCommitteeReferred to Joint Committee on Energy and Technology
Version history
Only one version on file - nothing to compare yet. As later stages (committee substitute, engrossed, enrolled) are captured, the redline appears here.
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No state lobbying filings in our records match this bill. Federal lobbying reports (LDA) cover Congress, so they are not listed on state bills.
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Who this bill affects and the strongest case for and against it, written only from the bill’s own text.
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Sources
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy60Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz40Current news / social attention level
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