STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          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.
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