Bill Text: NY S08202 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Updates certain requirements regarding billing for electric services, such as when corporations shall use an approved demand measuring device, mandating that classifications of service, the account and/or meter number, and the quantity billed be indicated on customers' bills.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-12 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S08202 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08202-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8202

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 12, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- 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 certain require-
          ments regarding billing for electric services

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 14 of section 66 of the public service law, as
     2  amended by chapter 696 of the laws  of  1936,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    14.  The  commission  shall have power to require each gas corporation
     5  and electric corporation to establish classifications of  service  based
     6  upon  the quantity used, the time when used, the purpose for which used,
     7  the duration of use and upon any other reasonable consideration, and  to
     8  establish  in  connection  therewith just and reasonable graduated rates
     9  and charges; and it shall have power, either upon complaint or upon  its
    10  own  motion,  to require such changes in such classifications, rates and
    11  charges as it shall determine to be just  and  reasonable.  Neither  the
    12  scheduled  rates nor the minimum charge for residential customers shall,
    13  after July first, nineteen hundred thirty-seven, be based in any  manner
    14  on  the number of outlets, number of rooms, cubic or square foot area or
    15  other such standards. Such classifications of service shall be indicated
    16  on each customer's bill for electric service and shall include a website
    17  address to other information deemed relevant by the commission.
    18    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 44 of the public service law,  as  added
    19  by chapter 713 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
    20    1.  Every  utility corporation or municipality shall assure that bills
    21  for service  to  residential  and  demand-metered  customers  adequately
    22  explain  the  charges  for  service in clear and understandable form and
    23  language and shall indicate the account number and/or meter  number  for
    24  the  account  for  which  service is being charged.  The commission may,
    25  from time to time, specify the form and content of such bills to further
    26  the objectives of this subdivision.  For utility corporations, such bill
    27  shall at a minimum include the quantity billed, the unit of  measurement

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  and the highest measurement of a specific line item as measured over the
     2  preceding fifty-two week period.
     3    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     4  it shall have become a law.