Governor vetoes third-party electricity consumer-protection proposal
Sep 30, 2026 · Vetoed · Proposed provisions not enacted
Rep. Debra Heffernan · Sponsored / Sen. Stephanie L. Hansen · Named bill author / Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown · Co-sponsored / Rep. Frank Burns · Co-sponsored / Rep. Eric Morrison · Co-sponsored / Rep. Alonna Berry · Co-sponsored / Rep. Richard G. Collins · Co-sponsored / Rep. Larry Lambert · Co-sponsored / Rep. Sophie Phillips · Co-sponsored / Rep. Claire Snyder-Hall · Co-sponsored / Rep. Mara Gorman · Co-sponsored / Rep. Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha · Co-sponsored / Rep. Kimberly Williams · Co-sponsored / Rep. Kerri Evelyn Harris · Co-sponsored / Sen. Marie Pinkney · Co-sponsored / Sen. Russell Huxtable · Co-sponsored / Sen. S. Elizabeth Lockman · Co-sponsored
Reviewed vetoed proposal
The residential electricity price and fee provisions concern household energy costs. They do not establish a change in measured CPI or all consumer prices. HB 393, with House Amendment 1, proposed Public Service Commission training and certification, monthly third-party electricity supplier cost and rate reports, and customer contract protections. Enrollment confirmation would be due within 15 business days, rate-change notice at least 15 days in advance, and renewal notices 90 and 30 days before expiration with affirmative written or electronic agreement. Residential nonrenewable offers would be capped at the utility’s trailing 12-month average standard-offer rate when the customer agreed. The proposal also limited contract terms and seasonal variable rates, prohibited specified fees and enrollment commissions, and expressly allowed time-of-use rates. Vetoed September 30, 2026; these provisions were proposed, not enacted by this bill. The complete retained history contains no override or later enactment. The original veto message has not been retained, so the governor’s reasons are not asserted. No measured change in prices, pay, spending or outcomes is established. The Section 218 exception concerned fines or imprisonment under that particular section for licensed individual electricity sales agents; it was not general immunity. The May 4 fiscal note predates House Amendment 1 and estimates administrative costs, not an appropriation or spending caused by the veto.
Vetoed September 30, 2026. Proposed provisions were not enacted by this bill; no override is recorded in the complete retained history.
Why this record is included
The residential electricity price and fee provisions concern household energy costs. They do not establish a change in measured CPI or all consumer prices. Vetoed September 30, 2026; these provisions were proposed, not enacted by this bill. The complete retained history contains no override or later enactment. The original veto message has not been retained, so the governor’s reasons are not asserted. No measured change in prices, pay, spending or outcomes is established. The Section 218 exception concerned fines or imprisonment under that particular section for licensed individual electricity sales agents; it was not general immunity. The May 4 fiscal note predates House Amendment 1 and estimates administrative costs, not an appropriation or spending caused by the veto.
Retained Delaware evidence context: deficit-debt-interest · reviewed Delaware policy context · energy · reviewed Delaware policy context · cpi · reviewed Delaware policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.
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