Bill Text: NY S01389 | 2021-2022 | 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 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2021-01-11 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S01389 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S01389-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1389 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 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. LBD03526-01-1
