Bill Text: NY S08252 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the annualization of past-due utility payments after an emergency order is lifted; requires utility corporations and municipalities provide residential customers with the right to annualize past due payments incurred during an emergency order, minus late fees, in monthly installments not to exceed three months average billing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-27 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S08252 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08252-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8252

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 27, 2020
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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 the annualization
          of past-due utility payments after an emergency order is lifted

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 32 of the public service  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 686 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
     3    6.  Special  procedures  following  a  state disaster emergency order.
     4  After a duly-declared order issued pursuant to section  twenty-eight  of
     5  the  executive  law  is  formally lifted, including but not limited to a
     6  state disaster emergency order issued for a pandemic, no utility  corpo-
     7  ration  or  municipality  shall  terminate  the service of a residential
     8  customer because of arrears owed to the utility corporation  or  munici-
     9  pality.  The  utility  corporation  or  municipality  shall provide such
    10  customer with the right to annualize past due payments  incurred  during
    11  the  emergency  order,  minus  late fees, in monthly installments not to
    12  exceed three  months  average  billing.  The  commission  shall  provide
    13  special  procedures, in accordance with this subdivision, to be followed
    14  by a utility corporation or municipality with respect to the termination
    15  or restoration of services after an emergency order is lifted.
    16    7. Implementation of the provisions of this section  shall  not  limit
    17  the  contractual  remedies  for  damages which might be available to the
    18  terminating utility provided that an award of such damages is not incon-
    19  sistent with any of the provisions of this article.
    20    § 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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