Bill Text: NY S03261 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires every utility corporation or municipality who sends an emergency notice to consumers to make available and provide such notice in English, Spanish, Haitian-Creole, Mandarin, Cantonese, Arabic, French, Urdu, Hindi and Tagalog.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S03261 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S03261-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3261

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 28, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. COMRIE, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and  Tele-
          communications

        AN  ACT  to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring emer-
          gency notices be provided to consumers in certain languages

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

     1    Section  1.  The  section  heading of section 44 of the public service
     2  law, as added by chapter 713 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read  as
     3  follows:
     4    Utility bills[;] and informational notices.
     5    §  2.  Section 44 of the public service law is amended by adding a new
     6  subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     7    6. The commission shall require every utility corporation  or  munici-
     8  pality  who sends an emergency notice to its consumers to make available
     9  and provide such emergency notice in English and  any  other  prevailing
    10  language  as the commission deems necessary which shall include Spanish,
    11  Haitian-Creole, Mandarin, Cantonese, Arabic,  French,  Urdu,  Hindi  and
    12  Tagalog.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00167-01-1