Bill Text: NY S01389 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended


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) 2022-05-24 - SUBSTITUTED BY A815A [S01389 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01389-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         1389--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 11, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. BROOKS, SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and  Tele-
          communications  -- recommitted to the Committee on Energy and Telecom-
          munications in accordance with Senate Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        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 7 to read as follows:
     3    7.  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.
                                                                   LBD03526-03-2
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