SB 442 — Requires the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada to establish certain reporting requirements. (BDR 58-429)

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442–COMMITTEE ON G ROWTH AND NFRASTRUCTURE (O N BEHALF OF THE JOINT NTERIM STANDING COMMITTEE ON G ROWTH AND INFRASTRUCTURE ) M ARCH 24, 2025 ____________ Referred to Committee on Growth and Infrastructure SUMMARY—Requires the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada to establish certain reporting requirements.

(BDR 58-429) FISCAL NOTE:

Effect on Local Government:

No.

Effect on the State:

Yes.

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Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada to adopt or amend certain regulations relating to a public utility terminating the gas, water or electric utilities of a residential customer.

(NRS 704.1835) This bill requires the Commission to adopt regulations that require a public utility to make available to the public a quarterly report concerning such terminations of utility services.

to Specifically, this bill requires that the report include:

(1) the total number of monthly terminations of utility services of residential customers during the previous quarter;

and (2) aggregated information concerning the residential customers whosewhoseous utility service was terminated, which must include the zip code of such residences.

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In addition to the regulations adopted pursuant to subsection 1, for the purposes of regulating public utilities that provide gas, - 83rd Session (2025) – 2 – water or electricity to landlords who pay for the utility service and who distribute or resell the gas, water or electricity to one or more residential tenants, the Commission shall adopt or amend regulations to require a public utility to use its best efforts to post, in a conspicuous location, notice of the intent of the public utility to terminate utility service because the landlord has failed to pay for such service.

Such notice must provide sufficient information to allow residential tenants or their occupants to contact the public utility if termination of the utility service is reasonably likely to tenant.nthreaten the health of an occupant of the residence of a residential 3.tenant.

The Commission shall adopt regulations that require a public utility, on or before the last day of the first month of each calendar quarter, to make available to the public a report that includes:

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(a) “Gas” includes, without limitation, liquefied petroleum gas and(b)and “Landlord”natural meansgas. a landlord who is subject, in whole or in part, to the provisions of chapter 118A or 118B of NRS.

H(b) -“Landlord” *SB442_R1*means a landlord who is subject, in whole or in part, to the provisions of chapter 118A or 118B of NRS.

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