Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt signed bill (HB-184) to repeal 2000 state ...
Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt signed bill (HB-184) to repeal 2000 state law that in July was to merge state’s 2 utility consumer advocacy agencies. Repealed law would have combined independent Utah Committee on Consumer Services into Utah PSC’s Consumer…
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Protection Div. to form new Div. of Utility Consumer Advocacy. Intent of last year’s HB-320, which was passed despite strong objections by consumer interests, was to streamline state’s utility regulation processes by combining all utility consumer advocacy into single entity. But critics charged that law, if implemented this summer, would have increased chances that state’s answers to energy and telecom problems could impose unfair and excessive burdens on telephone, electric and gas ratepayers.