Bill Text: NY A10986 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 10986 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides a one hundred dollar per day credit to customers of electric and gas corporations for power outages of twenty-four hours or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-09-09 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A10986 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10986-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10986

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    September 9, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Rozic) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on  Corporations,  Authorities
          and Commissions

        AN  ACT  to amend the public service law, in relation to providing a one
          hundred dollar per day credit to customers of electric and gas  corpo-
          rations for power outages of twenty-four hours or more

          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  73 to read as follows:
     3    §  73.  Power outage credit. Every electric corporation and gas corpo-
     4  ration in this state shall provide its customers with a credit  to  such
     5  customers' accounts at any time a customer is without power for a period
     6  of  time  in  excess  of  twenty-four hours. Such credit shall be in the
     7  amount of one hundred dollars for each twenty-four hour  period  that  a
     8  customer  is  without power and shall only be credited to the account of
     9  each customer of such corporation who has been without  power  for  such
    10  period  of  time.  Credit  to a customer's account made pursuant to this
    11  section shall be used to pay charges against such  account  assessed  by
    12  the  electric corporation or gas corporation and such customer shall not
    13  be required to pay on such account until such credit has been completely
    14  exhausted.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    16  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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