Sayegh, Miller B, DeStefano, Morinello, Salka, D'Urso, Manktelow
MLTSPNSR
Add §44-a, Pub Serv L
Requires the notification of a public utility company's or municipality's customers when the supply rate increases by at least one hundred percent by posting on the utility company's website.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3155
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. BYRNE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring the
notification of a public utility company's or municipality's customers
when the supply rate increases by at least one hundred percent
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 44-a to read as follows:
3 § 44-a. Increase in energy supply rate; customer notification. When a
4 public utility company or municipality which supplies energy determines
5 that an actual or projected energy supply rate is at least one hundred
6 percent over the prior month's energy supply rate, such public utility
7 company or municipality shall notify their customers by conspicuously
8 posting on their website their energy supply rate as well as the percent
9 increase in such rate from the prior month.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03096-01-9
