Bill Text: NY S04628 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the notification of a public utility company's or municipality's customers when the supply rate increases by at least one hundred percent by posting on the utility company's website.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S04628 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S04628-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4628 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 8, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- 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 the notification of a public utility company's or municipality's customers when the supply rate increases by at least one hundred percent The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 2 44-a to read as follows: 3 § 44-a. Increase in energy supply rate; customer notification. When a 4 public utility company or municipality which supplies energy determines 5 that an actual or projected energy supply rate is at least one hundred 6 percent over the prior month's energy supply rate, such public utility 7 company or municipality shall notify their customers by conspicuously 8 posting on their website their energy supply rate as well as the percent 9 increase in such rate from the prior month. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06286-01-1
