Bill Text: NY S08896 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides a discount to consumers who have a contract for service with a gas corporation, electric corporation, gas and electric corporation, water corporation, steam corporation, telegraph corporation, telephone corporation, cable television company, internet service provider or a municipality rendering equivalent utility services for failure to provide contracted services for a period of at least twenty-four hours.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-11 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08896 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08896-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8896

                    IN SENATE

                                     August 11, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- 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  providing  a
          discount  to  consumers  of  certain  utilities for failure to provide
          contracted services

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

     1    Section  1.  The public service law is amended by adding a new section
     2  119-d to read as follows:
     3    § 119-d. Failure to provide contracted services. A consumer who has  a
     4  contract  for  service with a gas corporation, electric corporation, gas
     5  and electric corporation, water corporation,  steam  corporation,  tele-
     6  graph  corporation,  telephone  corporation,  cable  television company,
     7  internet service provider or a municipality rendering equivalent utility
     8  services shall be entitled to a discount when the service such  consumer
     9  has contracted for is not provided for by such gas corporation, electric
    10  corporation,  gas  and  electric  corporation,  water corporation, steam
    11  corporation, telegraph corporation, telephone corporation,  cable  tele-
    12  vision  company,  internet  service provider or a municipality rendering
    13  equivalent utility services for a period of at least twenty-four  hours.
    14  Such  discount  shall be applied to the monthly charges assessed by such
    15  gas corporation, electric corporation,  gas  and  electric  corporation,
    16  water  corporation,  steam corporation, telegraph corporation, telephone
    17  corporation, cable television company, internet service  provider  or  a
    18  municipality  rendering  equivalent  utility  services  by reducing such
    19  monthly charges by a percentage that is equal to the number of  days  of
    20  the  billing cycle divided by the number of days such contracted service
    21  was not provided to the consumer.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17096-02-0