Bill Text: NY S07535 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits the monitoring, collection, recording or storing of data from gas and electric meters any more frequently than on a monthly or billing cycle basis, unless the express written consent of the consumer has been provided; and requires the consent of the property owner for entry upon residential property.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-08 - PRINT NUMBER 7535A [S07535 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07535-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7535--A
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 22, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to  prohibiting  the
          monitoring  of  natural gas or electricity meters more frequently than
          on a monthly or billing cycle basis and entry upon residential proper-
          ty
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 65 of the public service law is amended by adding
     2  two new subdivisions 5-a and 5-b to read as follows:
     3    5-a. No gas corporation, electric corporation or  municipality  shall,
     4  without  the  express  written consent of the consumer, monitor, record,
     5  collect or store data from any meter or apparatus  which  provides  such
     6  corporation  or municipality with a measure of the use of natural gas or
     7  electricity for any period of time less than one month  or  the  billing
     8  cycle,  whichever  shall be greater. No fee or rate fee shall be charged
     9  to those consumers who withhold such consent.
    10    5-b. No gas corporation, electric corporation  or  municipality  shall
    11  enter  a  residential property without the consent of the owner thereof,
    12  except when there is an emergency, or  imminent  or  potential  harm  to
    13  persons or property.
    14    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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