Bill Text: NY A09522 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes water-works corporations in the definition of "utility corporation" for purposes of automated identification of OTDA assistance program participants; provides for automated identification of OTDA assistance program participants for participation in water service affordability programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-12-13 - approval memo.33 [A09522 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09522-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9522

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 20, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Social Services

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to automated  iden-
          tification of OTDA assistance program participants

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (d) and (e) of subdivision 1 and  subdivision  2
     2  of  section  131-ss of the social services law, as amended by chapter 78
     3  of the laws of 2024, are amended to read as follows:
     4    (d) "Utility corporation" shall  include  utility  companies,  utility
     5  corporations, public utility companies, public utility corporations, gas
     6  corporations,  electric  corporations, [or] municipalities as defined in
     7  section two of the public service law  and  regulated  pursuant  to  the
     8  public  service  law,  water-works corporations, a municipal corporation
     9  that provides public utility services, a rural electric cooperative,  or
    10  a state public authority that provides utility services.
    11    (e)  "Utility  corporation  energy  affordability  programs"  shall be
    12  defined by the public service commission and shall be limited to utility
    13  corporation programs which are intended to assist customers with  energy
    14  affordability by reducing customers' energy or water service burden.
    15    2.  Within one year of the effective date of this section, the commis-
    16  sioner shall provide for automated  identification  of  OTDA  assistance
    17  program  participants for participation in utility corporation energy or
    18  water service affordability programs pursuant  to  subdivision  four  of
    19  this section.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14564-01-4