Bill Text: NY S06822 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to giving customers the option to receive a consolidated bill for both energy service companies and utility corporation services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S06822 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06822-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6822
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      June 21, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  FUNKE  -- 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 giving customers the
          option to receive a consolidated bill for both energy  service  compa-
          nies and utility corporation services
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 44 of the public service law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6. Every customer of an energy services company shall have the  option
     4  to  receive  a single consolidated bill for both ESCO and utility corpo-
     5  ration services from either the ESCO, if it offers a consolidated  bill,
     6  or  the utility corporation.  The commission shall ensure that customers
     7  who elect to receive a consolidated bill from an  ESCO  are  provided  a
     8  credit  or  other  rate  adjustment  reflecting the costs avoided by the
     9  utility corporation in no longer billing  the  customer  directly,  that
    10  utilities  recover  prudently  incurred and incremental costs related to
    11  implementing the single consolidated bill option and that utilities have
    12  an opportunity to earn an appropriate incentive for the efficient imple-
    13  mentation of the single consolidated bill option.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    15  law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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