# COMAR Title 20 — Public Service Commission

## Subtitle 59 — Competitive Gas Supply

### Chapter 05 — Utility-Consolidated Billing and Supplier-Consolidated Billing

#### Regulation .05 Supplier-Consolidated Billing.

*COMAR 20.59.05.05*

A. A supplier may elect to use supplier-consolidated billing upon receiving licensing that authorizes the provision of supplier-consolidated billing.

B. When an authorized supplier elects to use supplier-consolidated billing, a utility and a supplier shall transmit consumption, billing, payment, and related data to each other using electronic transactions approved by the Commission.

C. A utility may not obligate a supplier to purchase a customer’s arrears from the utility or from another supplier.

D. Utility Access to Supplier Bills for Supplier-Consolidated Billing.

  (1) A supplier providing supplier-consolidated billing services shall make a customer’s bill available to the utility in an electronic format.

  (2) A utility provided access to a customer’s supplier-consolidated billing information that includes supplier charges may not:

    (a) Use the information to market sales service;

    (b) Use the information to research or market other utility service; or

    (c) Without Commission authorization, share any information the utility gains through access to the supplier bill with the utility’s nonregulated affiliates or any other nongovernmental entity.