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Read. Follow. Verify.Connecticut Updates Technical Language on Retail Electric Supplier Regulations
Last action · April 7, 2026: File Number 469
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What This Bill Proposed
On October 1, 2026, the state updates statutory language concerning customer choice of electric suppliers and removes obsolete scheduling text.
Changes only administrative and statutory language regarding retail electric suppliers, with no state or municipal fiscal impact and no changes to electric rates or services.
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 suppliers
The statutory framework governing retail electric suppliers is updated to remove outdated phase-in language.
Electric distribution companies
Statutory references regarding customer generation services and distribution companies are amended.
Key Facts
- The bill amends Section 16-244b of the general statutes regarding retail electric suppliers, effective October 1, 2026.
- It removes obsolete phase-in schedule language from the statute governing customer choice of electric generation services.
- The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority may adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 to implement the section's provisions.
- The fiscal analysis indicates no state or municipal fiscal impact.
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This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · on the Senate floor.
Procedural history
9 actions- Apr 7, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFile Number 469
- Apr 7, 2026SenateSenate Calendar Number 281
- Apr 7, 2026SenateFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
- Apr 7, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Mar 30, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReferred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/07/26 12:00 PM
- Mar 20, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
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- Mar 19, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyJoint Favorable
- Mar 6, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyPublic Hearing 03/12
- Mar 5, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyCommitteeReferred to Joint Committee on Energy and Technology
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance10Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 10)
- Controversy5Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment1Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
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