Sec. 1. 35-A MRSA §3203, sub-§4, as amended by PL 1999, c. 657, §18, is further amended to read:

4. Consumer protection provisions. As a condition of licensing, a competitive electricity provider that provides or proposes to provide generation service to a residential consumer or to a small commercial consumer:

A. May not terminate generation service without at least 30-day prior notice to the consumer;

B. Must offer service to the consumer for a minimum period of 30 days;

C. Must allow the consumer to rescind selection of the competitive electricity provider orally or in writing within 5 days of initial selection;

D. May not telemarket services to the consumer if the consumer has filed with the commission a written request not to receive telemarketing from competitive electricity providers;

E. Must provide to the consumer within 30 days of contracting for retail service a disclosure of information provided to the commission pursuant to rules adopted under subsection 3 in a standard written format established by the commission; and

F. Must comply with any other applicable standards or requirements adopted by the commission by rule or order.

For purposes of this subsection, "residential consumer" means a consumer defined as residential under the terms and conditions of the consumer's transmission and distribution utility. For purposes of this subsection, "small commercial consumer" means, in the case of a consumer served by an investor-owned transmission and distribution utility, a nonresidential consumer that meets the availability criteria to take service under a core customer class of the transmission and distribution utility that does not pay a demand charge to the transmission and distribution utility or, in the case of a consumer served by a consumer-owned transmission and distribution utility, a nonresidential consumer with a demand of 20 kilowatts or less.

A competitive__electricity provider that is licensed pursuant to subsection 1 is governed by the provisions of this subsection and any rules adopted by the commission pursuant to subsection 6 and