relative to customer-generators inadvertently enrolled in a municipal or county aggregation program.

The document header was updated from 'AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE' to 'VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES,' indicating the bill reached final adoption by both legislative chambers. This is a status/procedural change only, with no policy impact.

The threshold for when retroactive net metering credits become non-recoverable was extended from 3 months to 4 months before the customer notified the utility. This means customer-generators can now recover credits going back a full 4 months, matching the bill's maximum 4-billing-cycle lookback period and removing an inconsistency in the House version.

Added the phrase 'for the customer-generator' after 'in effect' to clarify that the applicable net metering tariff is the one specific to that customer-generator, rather than a general or default tariff.

The bill now only applies to customer-generators inadvertently enrolled in a municipal or county aggregation program under RSA 53-E, rather than any third-party electricity supply program broadly.

The utility's investigation window was doubled from 10 business days to 20 business days, and restoration no longer happens within 5 business days of confirmation but instead at the start of the next billing cycle (with a 2-business-day determination deadline before that cycle begins).

The effective date changed from immediate upon passage to 60 days after passage.

Retroactive net metering credits were reduced from up to 6 months to up to 4 monthly billing cycles, and a new cap was added: credits for energy exported more than 3 months before the customer notifies the utility are not recoverable.

A new provision requires that retroactive credits issued under this section be recoverable from all customers, consistent with recovery of the utility's net metering expenses, meaning ratepayers broadly share the cost.

The introduced version's grant of rulemaking authority to the Public Utilities Commission under RSA 541-A was removed in the amended version.

The bill was restructured from creating a new standalone section (RSA 362-A:9-a) with its own definitions to adding a single paragraph (XXIV) to the existing net energy metering section (RSA 362-A:9), removing the standalone definitions for 'customer-generator,' 'inadvertent enrollment,' and 'default service.'