Bill Text: NY S01260 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires every utility corporation or municipality who sends an emergency notice to consumers to make available and provide such notice in English, Spanish, Haitian-Creole, Mandarin, Cantonese, Arabic, French, Urdu, Hindi and Tagalog.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S01260 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S01260-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1260 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 11, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Tele- communications AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring emer- gency notices be provided to consumers in certain languages The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The section heading of section 44 of the public service 2 law, as added by chapter 713 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 Utility bills[;] and informational notices. 5 § 2. Section 44 of the public service law is amended by adding a new 6 subdivision 7 to read as follows: 7 7. The commission shall require every utility corporation or munici- 8 pality who sends an emergency notice to its consumers to make available 9 and provide such emergency notice in English and any other prevailing 10 language as the commission deems necessary which shall include Spanish, 11 Haitian-Creole, Mandarin, Cantonese, Arabic, French, Urdu, Hindi and 12 Tagalog. 13 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03377-01-3