It would provide key consumer protections and rate caps for tenant-consumers of electric, natural gas and water service who now obtain electricity from their landlords, mobile home park owners, or third party billers such as submetering companies.

The sponsors worked with consumer groups such as the Ohio Poverty Law Center to come up with the proposal, which says that a submeter company must pass through the cost of utilities to the end user with no markup. To read entire article, click here.