SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1274        FILED ON: 1/17/2019

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1980

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Patricia D. Jehlen

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act protecting ratepayers from gas pipeline expansion costs.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

 

Patricia D. Jehlen

Second Middlesex

 

Thomas M. Stanley

9th Middlesex

1/29/2019

Mike Connolly

26th Middlesex

1/29/2019

Jason M. Lewis

Fifth Middlesex

1/29/2019

Patrick M. O'Connor

Plymouth and Norfolk

1/30/2019

Anne M. Gobi

Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Middlesex

1/31/2019

Michelle M. DuBois

10th Plymouth

1/31/2019

Cindy F. Friedman

Fourth Middlesex

1/31/2019

Paul R. Feeney

Bristol and Norfolk

1/31/2019

Diana DiZoglio

First Essex

1/31/2019

Bruce E. Tarr

First Essex and Middlesex

1/31/2019

Edward J. Kennedy

First Middlesex

1/31/2019

Denise Provost

27th Middlesex

1/31/2019

David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf

17th Worcester

2/1/2019

Joan B. Lovely

Second Essex

2/1/2019

Sal N. DiDomenico

Middlesex and Suffolk

2/1/2019

John F. Keenan

Norfolk and Plymouth

2/1/2019

Michael O. Moore

Second Worcester

2/1/2019

James B. Eldridge

Middlesex and Worcester

2/1/2019

Mark C. Montigny

Second Bristol and Plymouth

2/1/2019

Sean Garballey

23rd Middlesex

2/1/2019

David M. Rogers

24th Middlesex

2/1/2019

Rebecca L. Rausch

Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex

2/1/2019

Jack Patrick Lewis

7th Middlesex

2/1/2019

Jennifer E. Benson

37th Middlesex

2/1/2019

Carlos González

10th Hampden

2/1/2019

Sheila C. Harrington

1st Middlesex

2/1/2019

David Allen Robertson

19th Middlesex

2/4/2019

Walter F. Timilty

Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth

2/6/2019

Maria Duaime Robinson

6th Middlesex

2/8/2019

John J. Lawn, Jr.

10th Middlesex

2/8/2019


SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1274        FILED ON: 1/17/2019

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1980

By Ms. Jehlen, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1980) of Patricia D. Jehlen, Thomas M. Stanley, Mike Connolly, Jason M. Lewis and other members of the General Court for legislation to protect ratepayers from gas pipeline expansion costs.  Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.

 

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE SENATE, NO. 1855 OF 2017-2018.]

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-First General Court
(2019-2020)

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An Act protecting ratepayers from gas pipeline expansion costs.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 94A of chapter 164 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding, at the end thereof the following:-

Notwithstanding anything set forth herein, the department shall not approve any contract for the purchase of gas, gas pipeline capacity or liquefied gas storage where any contract costs would be recoverable from the ratepayers, if such contract requires any construction or expansion of interstate gas infrastructure.