Bill Text: NY S03758 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to services provided to residential customers by energy service companies; provides that beginning January 1, 2020, no energy service company shall execute a new contract for generation services with any individual residential retail customer; establishes that this prohibition shall not apply to, or otherwise affect, any government body that aggregates the load of residential retail customers as part of a community choice aggregation program approved by the public service commission.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S03758 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03758-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3758
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 13, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations
        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to services provided
          to residential customers by energy service companies
          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  54 to read as follows:
     3    §  54.  Services to residential customers by energy service companies.
     4  Beginning January first, two thousand twenty, no energy service  company
     5  shall execute a new contract for generation services with any individual
     6  residential  retail customer. This section shall not apply to, or other-
     7  wise affect, any government body that aggregates the load of residential
     8  retail customers as part  of  a  community  choice  aggregation  program
     9  approved  by  the  commission.  Any  violation  of this section shall be
    10  deemed a deceptive act or practice within the meaning of  article  twen-
    11  ty-two-a of the general business law, and the attorney general is hereby
    12  authorized to bring an action under such article to enforce this section
    13  and  to  obtain civil penalties, injunctive relief, and any other relief
    14  awarded pursuant to such article twenty-two-a.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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