STATE OF NEW YORK
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4574
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. JEAN-PIERRE, D'URSO, STECK, GOTTFRIED, THIELE,
SEAWRIGHT, MONTESANO, WALKER, VANEL, RA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
A. BUCHWALD, GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
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
