{"id":"AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG-018","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"Texas (State public utility commission)","state":"TX","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG","eco":"","issuer":"Public Utility Commission of Texas","authority":"Tex. Util. Code 14.001, 17.004, 39.101, 39.151","instrument":"Second Order Related to COVID-19 Electricity Relief Program, Project No. 50664","title":"Modification and continuation of the COVID-19 Electricity Relief Program; retail electric providers must continue to cease disconnections of eligible residential customers; Program to end July 17, 2020 unless extended","dateIssued":"2020-04-17","effective":"2020-04-17 (charge to be reviewed May 14, 2020)","end":"Program end date of July 17, 2020 (recited in Ex. 020), extended by the Third Order of July 16, 2020 to August 31, 2020","startDate":"2020-04-17","endDate":"2020-07-17","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3"],"types":["OTHER"],"addressees":["retail electric providers","transmission and distribution utilities","ERCOT"],"clause":"Through this Order, the Commission modifies the customer assistance program previously [established]... 3. Retail electric providers must cease disconnections of eligible residential customers in areas open to customer choice as provided by other orders of the Commission and the COVID-19 Electricity Relief Program attached to this Order.","enforcement":"Tex. Util. Code 15.023","functions":["OP REP collections and disconnections","OF TDU riders and reporting","CB eligible residential customers"],"notes":"Issued the same day as the Second Order Directing Certain Actions (item 171), which renewed the deferred-payment directive and narrowed the disconnection and late-fee exceptions to residential customers through May 15, 2020 (read, not saved).","sourceUrl":"https://interchange.puc.texas.gov/Documents/50664_172_1061642.PDF","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":585648,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG","url":"/library/AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG-018","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG-018","citation":"Public Utility Commission of Texas, Second Order Related to COVID-19 Electricity Relief Program, Project No. 50664 (Apr. 17, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG-018)","stateName":"Texas","related":["AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG-017","AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG-019"]}