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Assembly Bill A3155

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates 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

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2019-A3155 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Add §44-a, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A10782
2021-2022: A3888
2023-2024: A2859
2025-2026: A1270

2019-A3155 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2019-A3155 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3155
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2019
                                ___________
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a  new  section
 44-a to read as follows:
   §  44-A. INCREASE IN ENERGY SUPPLY RATE; CUSTOMER NOTIFICATION. WHEN A
 PUBLIC UTILITY COMPANY OR MUNICIPALITY WHICH SUPPLIES ENERGY  DETERMINES
 THAT  AN  ACTUAL OR PROJECTED ENERGY SUPPLY RATE IS AT LEAST ONE HUNDRED
 PERCENT OVER THE PRIOR MONTH'S ENERGY SUPPLY RATE, SUCH  PUBLIC  UTILITY
 COMPANY  OR  MUNICIPALITY  SHALL NOTIFY THEIR CUSTOMERS BY CONSPICUOUSLY
 POSTING ON THEIR WEBSITE THEIR ENERGY SUPPLY RATE AS WELL AS THE PERCENT
 INCREASE IN SUCH RATE FROM THE PRIOR MONTH.
   § 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

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