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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3025
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SHRESTHA -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
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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