STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8837
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    December 22, 2017
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        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.
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