Bill Text: NY S01455 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires water works corporations to post water supply statements online if a website exists or make such available to the municipalities' website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-03-11 - referred to health [S01455 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01455-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1455
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 15, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sens. SANDERS, BAILEY, BROOKS, CARLUCCI, COMRIE, MONTGOM-
          ERY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be  commit-
          ted to the Committee on Health
        AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to requiring water
          works corporations to post water supply statements online
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 1152 of the public health
     2  law, subdivision 1 as added by chapter 752  of  the  laws  of  1986  and
     3  subdivision  3 as amended by chapter 62 of the laws of 1998, are amended
     4  to read as follows:
     5    1. Each water works corporation shall provide a water supply statement
     6  to its customers annually.  The  annual  water  supply  statement  shall
     7  either be mailed to each customer or published in at least one newspaper
     8  of  general  circulation  in  the  area served by the water works corpo-
     9  ration. If the statement is to be published in a  newspaper,  the  water
    10  works  corporation  shall  provide  ample notification by announcing the
    11  publication date and newspaper name either on the customers bill  or  in
    12  the  newspaper  in which the statement shall appear. A limited number of
    13  additional copies, in a quantity to be determined  by  the  water  works
    14  corporation,  shall  be provided to customers upon request. In addition,
    15  the statement must be posted on the water works  corporation's  website,
    16  if  such  exists,  or  be  made available to the municipality or munici-
    17  palities in which the water works corporation services to be  posted  on
    18  such municipalities' website, if such exists.
    19    3.  The  annual water supply statement shall be mailed [or], published
    20  or posted online on or before the thirty-first day of May of  each  year
    21  and  shall  apply to data received by the water works corporation during
    22  the preceding calendar year.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    24  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01268-01-9