HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1493        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3110

 

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act requiring public utilities to provide prepaid postage to elderly persons..

 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Chapter 25 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding the following section: — Section 19. Every electric, gas, telephone and telegraph company doing business in the commonwealth and subject to the jurisdiction of the department shall provide in all of its requests for payment to persons sixty-five years of age or over a return envelope with postage prepaid.