Providing a statewide minimum privacy policy for disclosure of customer energy use information.
Summary
Prohibits an electric utility, including a small utility, from selling private or proprietary customer information.
Prohibits an electric utility from disclosing private or proprietary retail electric customer information with or to its affiliates, subsidiaries, or any other third party for the purposes of marketing services or product offerings to a retail electric customer who does not already subscribe to the service or product, unless the utility has first obtained the customer's written or electronic permission.
Prohibits a person from capturing, obtaining, or disclosing private or proprietary customer information for commercial purposes without the retail electric customer's written or electronic permission, with certain exceptions.
Makes the disclosure or sale of private or proprietary retail electric customer information to an electric utility's affiliates, subsidiaries, or any other third party for the purposes of marketing services or product offerings, without the customer's written or electronic permission, an unfair or deceptive act in trade or commerce and an unfair method of competition for the purposes of applying the Consumer Protection Act (CPA).
From the Substitute House Bill Report (SHB 1896), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗