Directs utilities to study the potential health risks and effects of smart meters including, but not limited to, the risks and effects of the installation of such smart meters, and recommended safe practices associated with the use of smart meters; requires utilities to report their findings to the public service commission; and requires the public service commission to prepare a comprehensive report to the governor and legislature.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6692
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
September 6, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT directing utilities to study the potential health risks and
effects of smart meters; and providing for the repeal of such
provisions upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Public health study of smart meters. 1. Definition. For the
2 purposes of this section, "smart meter" shall mean a meter that records
3 electrical or natural gas consumption in real-time or over short inter-
4 vals and communicates such information to a utility through a two-way
5 information exchange.
6 2. Utilities operating in the state and offering smart meters shall
7 conduct a study of the potential health risks and effects of smart
8 meters including, but not limited to, the risks and effects of the
9 installation of such smart meters, and recommended safe practices asso-
10 ciated with the use of smart meters.
11 3. Not later than one year after the effective date of this act, each
12 utility shall report to the public service commission on its findings.
13 Not later than eighteen months after the effective date of this act, the
14 public service commission shall prepare a comprehensive report to the
15 governor and the legislature setting forth and evaluating the findings
16 of such utilities.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
18 have become a law, and shall expire and be deemed repealed two years
19 after such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13619-01-9
