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An Act Regarding Penalties for Opting Out of Paperless Billing
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1.  10 MRSA §9420  is enacted to read:
§ 9420. Paperless billing
A customer of a person may not be penalized by that person for opting out of receiving from the person a billing statement by electronic record rather than in paper form. A person may offer an incentive to a customer to accept a billing statement from the person by electronic record rather than in paper form.
 
SUMMARY
This bill prohibits penalizing a customer for opting out of receiving a billing statement in electronic form rather than paper form, but allows an incentive to be offered to a customer to accept a billing statement electronically rather than in paper form.