Bill Text: NY S06796 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the commission from making a regulation or allowing a tariff that imposes a fee, surcharge, cost or creates a cost differential for a customer for having an analog meter, digital meter, automated meter reading equipped meter, advanced metering infrastructure equipped meter or manual meter so long as such customer provides access and allows for metering in compliance with the rules, regulations and tariffs as the commission may impose.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S06796 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06796-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6796

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    October 23, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the public  service  law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
          charging different rates based upon the type of meter a customer uses

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

     1    Section 1. Section 39 of the public service law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5. A utility corporation or municipality shall  not  impose  different
     4  rates, charges, price differentials or fees based upon the type of meter
     5  that  a customer uses. The commission shall make no regulation and allow
     6  no tariff that shall impose a fee, surcharge, cost  or  creates  a  cost
     7  differential  for  a customer for having an analog meter, digital meter,
     8  automated meter reading equipped meter, advanced metering infrastructure
     9  equipped meter or manual meter so long as such customer provides  access
    10  and  allows  for  metering in compliance with the rules, regulations and
    11  tariffs as the commission may impose.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    13  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13589-02-9