Bill Text: NY A04895 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires gas and electric corporations to provide sixty days' notice to customers whenever there is a service rate or charge increase.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to energy [A04895 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04895-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4895

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 24, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. ARDILA -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Energy

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring gas and
          electric corporations to provide sixty days' notice to customers when-
          ever 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 (l) to read as follows:
     3    (l)  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 sixty 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.
                                                                   LBD04654-01-3
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