Does the legislature grandfather current illegals in so the company cannot be held liable for selling them power?
Hopefully, citizens will tip utilities off about illegals so the utility will shut down existing customers after investigating. Otherwise, the illegals can stay forever as long as they don’t move.
If a citizen tips off the authorities that the utility has been selling services to an illegal alien then does the whistle-blower get a reward? Part of the fine the utility is liable for?
I don’t know of any reward system currently in place. The utility company is not liable for any existing customers as the law only requires they check new customers. So utilities are probably not going to create more work for themselves by encouraging tipsters. They served those customers in the past because they had no basis not to without engendering discrimination lawsuits. Now they have a legal basis to refuse service, but they are not going to go out of their way to cut their revenues from existing customers.
Smart landlords can take advantage of these illegals’ new difficulty in relocating, however. They can raise their rents because their current renter will have trouble getting utilities at a new place.
The law does make it a felony to assist illegals in circumventing the law, so at least you won’t have legal residents letting illegals use their name to get utilities.