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S01709 Summary:

BILL NO	S01709
SAME AS	SAME AS A04574
SPONSOR	BROOKS
COSPNSR	SANDERS
MLTSPNSR
Amd §44, Pub Serv L
Requires utility companies to include on their bills notice of any and all public hearings concerning rate hikes.

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S01709 Actions:

BILL NO	S01709
01/15/2019	REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
02/04/2019	1ST REPORT CAL.117
02/05/2019	2ND REPORT CAL.
02/11/2019	ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
06/20/2019	COMMITTED TO RULES
01/08/2020	REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
01/22/2020	1ST REPORT CAL.232
01/23/2020	2ND REPORT CAL.
01/27/2020	ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
12/28/2020	COMMITTED TO RULES

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S01709 Committee Votes:

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S01709 Floor Votes:

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S01709 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1709
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 15, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  BROOKS -- 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 utility
          companies  to  include  a  notice  of  public hearings concerning rate
          increases

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 44 of the public service law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6.  Every  utility  corporation  shall  include on their bills sent to
     4  their customers advance notice of the date and  place  of  any  and  all
     5  public  hearings,  including  but  not  limited  to  hearings before the
     6  commission, concerning proposed  increases  in  rates  of  such  utility
     7  corporation  known to such utility corporation at the time of the prepa-
     8  ration of such bills.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    10  have become a law.
 
 
 
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06838-01-9

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