Bill Text: NY S01804 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires gas and electric corporations to provide sixty days' notice to customers whenever there is a service rate or charge increase.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-04 - referred to energy [S01804 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S01804-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1804 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 17, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- 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 gas and electric corporations to provide sixty days' notice to customers when- ever there is a service rate or charge increase The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 12 of section 66 of the public service law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (l) to read as follows: 3 (l) In addition to any other requirements regarding an increase in 4 rates or charges imposed by this section, the commission shall require 5 all gas and electric corporations to provide at least sixty days' 6 notice, in writing, to each customer which such service is being 7 provided to, indicating to such customer that a rate or charge increase 8 for services will take effect. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04654-01-3