Bill Text: NY S01194 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires gas and electric corporations to provide forty-five days' notice to customers whenever there is a service rate or charge increase.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-31 - PRINT NUMBER 1194A [S01194 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-S01194-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1194--A 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. ADDABBO, COMRIE, MAYER, ROLISON, WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommunications -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring gas and electric corporations to provide forty-five days' notice to customers whenever there is a service rate or charge increase The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 12 of section 66 of the public service law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (m) to read as follows: 3 (m) In addition to any other requirements regarding an increase in 4 rates or charges imposed by this section, the commission shall require 5 all gas and electric corporations to provide at least forty-five days' 6 notice, in writing, to each customer which such service is being 7 provided to, indicating to such customer that a rate or charge increase 8 for services will take effect. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01894-02-5
