Bill Text: NY A07005 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the public service commission to distribute penalty awards received from public utilities to customers aggrieved by the actions of the public utility.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A07005 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07005-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7005

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BEEPHAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in  relation  to  requiring  the
          public  service  commission to distribute penalty awards received from
          public utilities to customers aggrieved by the actions of  the  public
          utility

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

     1    Section 1. Section 25 of the public service law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 6-a to read as follows:
     3    6-a. Any payment made by a  public  utility  company,  corporation  or
     4  person  and the officers, agents and employees thereof as a result of an
     5  action as provided in section twenty-four of this article shall be  paid
     6  by  the commission, after collection of such amount, to the customers of
     7  the public utility company or corporation aggrieved by  the  actions  of
     8  the  public  utility company or corporation that resulted in the penalty
     9  being imposed. Such payment to customers shall be made by  check  issued
    10  by  the  commission or by a credit to the aggrieved customer's accounts,
    11  as determined by the commission.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10798-01-3