Bill Text: NY S09402 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the utility materials disclosure act to require investor-owned energy utilities publish on its customer-facing website both its promotional and educational materials and file such materials with the public service commission.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-15 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S09402 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09402-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9402

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 15, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- 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 requiring inve-
          stor-owned energy utilities publish  on  its  customer-facing  website
          both its promotional and educational materials

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

     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "utility materials disclosure act".
     3    §  2.  The public service law is amended by adding a new section 28 to
     4  read as follows:
     5    § 28. Materials to be published. 1. For the purposes of this  section,
     6  "investor-owned energy utility" shall mean any gas corporation, electric
     7  corporation, or combination gas and electric corporation.
     8    2.  The  department  shall require every investor-owned energy utility
     9  publish on its customer-facing website, and file  with  the  commission,
    10  any  promotional  and  educational  materials such investor-owned energy
    11  utility makes available to customers digitally or in print.  A  list  of
    12  such  files  shall  be published with the original title and publication
    13  date on a page that is easily accessible from the website menu.
    14    3. Such materials referenced in subdivision two of this section  shall
    15  remain  posted  on  an  investor-owned  energy utility's customer-facing
    16  website three years from the date such materials are published.
    17    4. If an investor-owned energy utility is found to be in violation  of
    18  this  section,  penalties  or  sanctions  shall  be assessed pursuant to
    19  section twenty-five or twenty-five-a of this article, as applicable.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    21  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    22  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    23  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    24  on or before such date.

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