SECOND REGULAR SESSION

[P E R F E C T E D]

SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL NO. 561

89TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

 Reported from the Committee on Commerce and Environment, February 9, 1998, with recommendation that the Senate Committee Substitute do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.

Senate Committee Substitute adopted March 3, 1998.

Taken up March 3, 1998. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.

TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.

S2475.02P

AN ACT

To amend chapter 393, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to billing procedures of providers of utility services, with an effective date.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

Section A.  Chapter 393, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 393.300, to read as follows:

393.300.  Any provider of telephone, sewer, water, electric or gas utility service, whether public or private, shall, upon the request of a customer of such provider, provide the customer's bills in braille or no less than twenty-four point bold-faced type print or both.

Section B.  Section 393.300 shall become effective on August 28, 1999.



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