State Sen. Carmen Amato Jr. and Assemblymen Brian Rumpf and Gregory Myhre of the 9th Legislative District plan to introduce legislation that would require a public utility to charge a volunteer emergency service organization a residential rate at the organization’s primary property. This would take effect only if the residential rate is lower than the commercial rate for the service at that location.

A “volunteer emergency service organization,” as defined under the delegation’s proposal, is “an organization that…