Requires every utility corporation or municipality who sends an emergency notice to consumers to make available and provide such notice in English, Spanish, Haitian-Creole, Mandarin, Cantonese, Arabic, French, Urdu, Hindi and Tagalog.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1260
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 11, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Tele-
communications
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring emer-
gency notices be provided to consumers in certain languages
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The section heading of section 44 of the public service
2 law, as added by chapter 713 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 Utility bills[;] and informational notices.
5 § 2. Section 44 of the public service law is amended by adding a new
6 subdivision 7 to read as follows:
7 7. The commission shall require every utility corporation or munici-
8 pality who sends an emergency notice to its consumers to make available
9 and provide such emergency notice in English and any other prevailing
10 language as the commission deems necessary which shall include Spanish,
11 Haitian-Creole, Mandarin, Cantonese, Arabic, French, Urdu, Hindi and
12 Tagalog.
13 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03377-01-3
