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This law appears to supercede state laws and allows for electronic
signatures. Perhaps this should be circulated to everyone in Rick's group. Janine ---------------------- Forwarded by Janine Migden/DUB/EES on 06/20/2000 12:53 PM --------------------------- DRinebolt@aol.com on 06/20/2000 12:13:15 PM To: Janine_Migden@enron.com (Janine Migden), Lbell33@aol.com, bentine@cwslaw.com (Bentine,John W.), blaskjo@vssp.com (Blasko,Joseph C.), Christine_E._Lippold@cng.com (Christine E Lippold), lippold-c@bigfoot.com (Christine Lippold), dryan@mwncmh.com (Debbie Ryan), ghummel@mwncmh.com (Gretchen Hummel), michelleg@ohioretailmerchants.com (Griffiths,Michelle), smhoward@vssp.com (Howard,Steve), Ellis@daytonlegalaid.org (Jacobs,Ellis), jcea@mwncmh.com (Jean Cea), jonespl@stargate.net (Jones,Phil), Philip_L_Jones@cng.com (Jones,Phil), Jonespl@stargate.net (Phil Jones), murraykm@mwncmh.com (Kevin Murray), kwile@mwncmh.com (Kim Wile), Becky_L_Merola@enron.com (Becky L Merola), Jmisaros@aol.com, mhpetricoff@vssp.com (Petricoff,M. Howard), ben@ohiogrocers.org (Piscitelli,Ben), Thomas_S_Reichelderfer@enron.com (Thomas S Reichelderfer), preising@rwbeck.com (Reising,Paul), DRinebolt@aol.com, drubin@clevegrowth.com (Rubin,David), srandazzo@mwncmh.com (Sam Randazzo), jsmall@cwslaw.com (Small,Jeffrey L.), larrys@ohioretailmerchants.com (Stelzer,Jr.,Lawrence J.), taftsh@vssp.com (Taft,Sheldon A. ), kwalsh@newenergy.com (Walsh,Ken (E-mail), Lara_Leibman@enron.com (Lara Leibman), pmikuls@wpsenergy.com (Phil Mikulsky), beverlyejones@mindspring.com (Bev Jones), LColes@rwbeck.com (Coles,Lynn), Clevelandutil@hotmail.com (Ivan Henderson)) cc: Subject: Fwd: NCLC Energy: Electronic Signature; Federal Preemption This should be of particular interests to the marketers. Dave Rinebolt OPAE Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: <owner-energy@lists.nclc.org< Received: from rly-ye01.mx.aol.com (rly-ye01.mail.aol.com [172.18.151.198]) by air-ye04.mx.aol.com (v74.17) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:12:42 -0400 Received: from cyways.com (66.64p27.118.239.140.in-addr.arpa [140.239.118.66]) by rly-ye01.mx.aol.com (v74.17) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:12:27 -0400 Received: from localhost (bin@localhost) by cyways.com (8.9.3/8.7.2) with SMTP id KAA26870; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:11:18 -0400 Received: by pikachu.cyways.com (bulk_mailer v1.12); Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:11:07 -0400 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by cyways.com (8.9.3/8.7.2) id KAA26861 for energy-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:11:07 -0400 Message-ID: <394F7B4A.13B50408@ctel.net< Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:10:18 -0400 From: "Barbara R. Alexander" <barbalex@ctel.net< Organization: Consumer Affairs Consultant X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: NCLC Energy List <energy@lists.nclc.org<, consumer_list@nrri.ohio-st Subject: NCLC Energy: Electronic Signature; Federal Preemption Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-energy@lists.nclc.org Reply-To: energy@lists.nclc.org X-Archive: http://lists.nclc.org Both the NCLC Energy List and NARUC Consumer Affairs folks will be interested in S. 761 which was enacted by Congress and is awaiting President's signature. This legislation creates an "electronic signature" law and preempts any state law to the contrary. There is an exception for a number of written signature requirements and notification of information in writing, including an exemption for "cancellation or termination of utlity services (including water, heat and power)" [Section 103(b)(3)] Please note the absence of specific reference to telephone service, but the term "utility service" may suffice. My preliminary reading suggests that this statute would preempt a state law or regulation that requires a customer to enroll with a competitive supplier with a "wet signature." This legislation does not require a customer to agree to provide a signature electronically, but does prevent a state from prohibiting a commercial entity from seeking an electronic signature as a valid and legal signature. Barbara Alexander Consumer Affairs Consultant
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