Bill Text: NY S01269 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires utility companies to include on their bills notice of any and all public hearings concerning rate hikes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S01269 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S01269-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1269
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. PERKINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations
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 S 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.
LBD02697-01-3
