Bill Text: NY A00815 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires utility companies to include on their bills notice of any and all public hearings concerning rate hikes.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-3)
Status: (Vetoed) 2022-12-16 - tabled [A00815 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A00815-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 815--A Cal. No. 52 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JEAN-PIERRE, STECK, GOTTFRIED, THIELE, SEAWRIGHT, MONTESANO, WALKER, VANEL, RA, OTIS, EPSTEIN, REYES, COLTON, SAYEGH, GRIFFIN, RAJKUMAR, ANDERSON, ZINERMAN, DeSTEFANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corpo- rations, Authorities and Commissions -- ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring utility companies to include a notice of public hearings concerning rate increases The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 44 of the public service law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 7 to read as follows: 3 7. Every utility corporation shall include on their bills sent to 4 their customers advance notice of the date and place of any and all 5 public hearings, including but not limited to hearings before the 6 commission, concerning proposed increases in rates of such utility 7 corporation known to such utility corporation at the time of the prepa- 8 ration of such bills. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 10 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03526-02-2
