Bill Text: NY S02710 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the release of a consumer's electrical or gas consumption data to any police officer, or private, local, state or federal law enforcement entity without a judicial court-ordered subpoena, warrant or the consumer's written consent.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S02710 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02710-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2710

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 24, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. PARKER, GOUNARDES -- 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  prohibiting  the
          release of consumption data

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 65 of the public service law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 7-a to read as follows:
     3    7-a. No utility corporation,  municipality  or  local  publicly  owned
     4  electric  or  gas  corporation  shall  share, disclose or otherwise make
     5  accessible a consumer's electrical or gas consumption data  or  allow  a
     6  third  party  to share, disclose, or otherwise make accessible a consum-
     7  er's electrical or gas consumption  data,  to  any  police  officer,  as
     8  defined  by  section  1.20  of  the  criminal procedure law, or private,
     9  local, state or federal  law  enforcement  entity,  without  a  judicial
    10  court-ordered  subpoena,  warrant,  or  the  consumer's written, knowing
    11  consent. This subdivision shall  not  preclude  a  utility  corporation,
    12  municipality  or  local  publicly owned electric or gas corporation from
    13  using customer  aggregate  electrical  consumption  data  for  analysis,
    14  reporting, or program management if all personal identifying information
    15  has been removed regarding such individual consumer.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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