Bill Text: NY A02859 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the notification of a public utility company's or municipality's customers when the supply rate increases by at least forty percent and to notify such customers of bill assistance programs by posting on the utility company's website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A02859 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02859-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2859

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 27, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public service law, in relation to requiring the
          notification of a public utility company's or municipality's customers
          when the supply rate increases by at least forty percent

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The public service law is amended by adding a new section
     2  44-a to read as follows:
     3    § 44-a. Increase in energy supply rate; customer notification. When  a
     4  public  utility company or municipality which supplies energy determines
     5  that an actual or projected energy supply rate is at least forty percent
     6  over the prior month's energy supply rate, such public  utility  company
     7  or municipality shall notify their customers by conspicuously posting on
     8  their  website  their energy supply rate as well as the percent increase
     9  in such rate from the prior month.
    10    § 2. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 44-b to
    11  read as follows:
    12    § 44-b. Bill assistance programs; customer notification.  Each  public
    13  utility company or municipality which supplies energy shall notify their
    14  customers  by  conspicuously  posting  on their website any and all bill
    15  assistance programs available to their customers.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03899-04-3