Bill Text: NY S03138 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes utility corporations, telegraph and telephone corporations, and cable television corporations to provide notice of bills to third parties at the request of the customer.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-23 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [S03138 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S03138-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3138--B
            Cal. No. 712

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 27, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations  --  recommitted  to  the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
          cations in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably
          from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to  a
          third  reading,  amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in
          the order of third reading -- again  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,
          retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, the general business law and the
          public authorities law, in relation to third party notification

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

     1    Section 1. Section 40 of the public service law, as amended by chapter
     2  631 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 40. Voluntary third-party [notice prior to termination  of  service]
     4  notification.  1. Every utility corporation or municipality shall permit
     5  a  residential  customer to designate a third-party to receive notice of
     6  the total amount due or past due  on  all  bills,  the  amounts  of  any
     7  payments  paid  by or on behalf of such residential customer, and copies
     8  of all notices relating to  termination  of  service  [or]  and  notices
     9  relating to collection of amounts due sent to such residential customer,
    10  provided that the designated third-party indicates in writing a willing-
    11  ness to receive such notices.
    12    2.  Every utility corporation or municipality shall permit a landlord,
    13  upon written request of both the landlord and  tenant,  to  designate  a
    14  third-party to be notified of all requests for discontinuance of service
    15  to units owned by such landlord.
    16    § 2. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 393-f
    17  to read as follows:
    18    §  393-f.  Voluntary  third-party  notification. 1. Every telegraph or
    19  telephone corporation,  cable  television  corporation,  cellular  phone

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03255-04-2
        S. 3138--B                          2

     1  company,  or  municipality shall permit a residential customer to desig-
     2  nate a third-party to receive notice of the total amount due or past due
     3  on all bills, the amounts of any payments paid by or on behalf  of  such
     4  residential  customer, and copies of all notices relating to termination
     5  of service and notices relating to collection of  amounts  due  sent  to
     6  such  residential  customer,  provided  that  the designated third-party
     7  indicates in writing a willingness to receive such notices.
     8    2. Every telegraph or telephone corporation, cable  television  corpo-
     9  ration, cellular phone company, or municipality shall permit a landlord,
    10  upon  written  request  of  both the landlord and tenant, to designate a
    11  third-party to be notified of all requests for discontinuance of service
    12  to units owned by such landlord.
    13    § 3. Section 1020-f of the public authorities law, as added by chapter
    14  517 of the laws of 1986, is amended by adding a new subdivision (jj)  to
    15  read as follows:
    16    (jj) The authority and its service provider shall permit a residential
    17  customer  to  designate  a  third-party  to  receive notice of the total
    18  amount due or past due on all bills, the amounts of any payments paid by
    19  or on behalf of such residential customers, and copies  of  all  notices
    20  relating to termination of service and notices relating to collection of
    21  amounts  due sent to such residential customer, provided that the desig-
    22  nated third-party indicates in writing a  willingness  to  receive  such
    23  notices.
    24    § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    25  it shall have become a law.