Bill Text: NY A08837 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
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 13-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-02-27 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [A08837 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A08837-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8837 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY December 22, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JEAN-PIERRE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions 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 6 to read as follows: 3 6. 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. LBD08321-01-7
