Includes water-works corporations in the definition of "utility corporation" for purposes of automated identification of OTDA assistance program participants; provides for automated identification of OTDA assistance program participants for participation in water service affordability programs.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
March 20, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to automated iden-
tification of OTDA assistance program participants
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs (d) and (e) of subdivision 1 and subdivision 2
2 of section 131-ss of the social services law, as amended by chapter 78
3 of the laws of 2024, are amended to read as follows:
4 (d) "Utility corporation" shall include utility companies, utility
5 corporations, public utility companies, public utility corporations, gas
6 corporations, electric corporations, [or] municipalities as defined in
7 section two of the public service law and regulated pursuant to the
8 public service law, water-works corporations, a municipal corporation
9 that provides public utility services, a rural electric cooperative, or
10 a state public authority that provides utility services.
11 (e) "Utility corporation energy affordability programs" shall be
12 defined by the public service commission and shall be limited to utility
13 corporation programs which are intended to assist customers with energy
14 affordability by reducing customers' energy or water service burden.
15 2. Within one year of the effective date of this section, the commis-
16 sioner shall provide for automated identification of OTDA assistance
17 program participants for participation in utility corporation energy or
18 water service affordability programs pursuant to subdivision four of
19 this section.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14564-01-4
