Modifying the definition of public utility relating to providing +services exclusively to tenants or to manufactured homes or trailer parks; +exempting rates, programs or services provided to low income households from +the prohibition on unreasonably preferential rates; prohibiting utility disconnection of residential services under heat advisories, +warnings or emergencies issued by the national weather service and requiring +service reconnection to dwellings in cases of potential threat to the health +or life of occupants resulting from the heat; prohibiting utilities from +enforcing charges for residential service against persons not named in the service +provided; requiring payment agreements for arrears to consider the financial +resources of the household and exempting utilities from the obligation to offer +arrearage payment agreements to customers able to pay; specifying certain +applicant qualification requirements for the provision of new service upon +request, requiring prompt notice of denial and granting applicants denied +service the right to investigation and review; prohibiting deposit requests of +public or energy assistance recipients; requiring utility bills to display the +telephone number of the public utilities commission with a statement of the +right to contact the PUC for help with unresolved complaints, exception; +authorizing customers to designate third parties to receive copies of bills and +notices relating to collection of past due amounts and disconnection of +service and to accept responsibility for payment on behalf of the customer under +certain agreement conditions; prohibiting the use of devices limiting or +interrupting electric service under the cold weather rule; regulating service disconnections, specifying certain notice requirements and +restrictions and providing for certain special protections; specifying certain annual +reporting requirements of distribution facilities relating to energy assistance+ and service disconnections and reconnections (mk)