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Senate Bill S8252

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the annualization of past-due utility payments after an emergency order is lifted

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2019-S8252 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §32, Pub Serv L

2019-S8252 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the annualization of past-due utility payments after an emergency order is lifted; requires utility corporations and municipalities provide residential customers with the right to annualize past due payments incurred during an emergency order, minus late fees, in monthly installments not to exceed three months average billing.

2019-S8252 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S8252 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8252
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 27, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
   cations
 
 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to the annualization
   of past-due utility payments after an emergency order is lifted
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 32 of the public service  law,  as
 added by chapter 686 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
   6.  SPECIAL  PROCEDURES  FOLLOWING  A  STATE DISASTER EMERGENCY ORDER.
 AFTER A DULY-DECLARED ORDER ISSUED PURSUANT TO SECTION  TWENTY-EIGHT  OF
 THE  EXECUTIVE  LAW  IS  FORMALLY LIFTED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO A
 STATE DISASTER EMERGENCY ORDER ISSUED FOR A PANDEMIC, NO UTILITY  CORPO-
 RATION  OR  MUNICIPALITY  SHALL  TERMINATE  THE SERVICE OF A RESIDENTIAL
 CUSTOMER BECAUSE OF ARREARS OWED TO THE UTILITY CORPORATION  OR  MUNICI-
 PALITY.  THE  UTILITY  CORPORATION  OR  MUNICIPALITY  SHALL PROVIDE SUCH
 CUSTOMER WITH THE RIGHT TO ANNUALIZE PAST DUE PAYMENTS  INCURRED  DURING
 THE  EMERGENCY  ORDER,  MINUS  LATE FEES, IN MONTHLY INSTALLMENTS NOT TO
 EXCEED THREE  MONTHS  AVERAGE  BILLING.  THE  COMMISSION  SHALL  PROVIDE
 SPECIAL  PROCEDURES, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS SUBDIVISION, TO BE FOLLOWED
 BY A UTILITY CORPORATION OR MUNICIPALITY WITH RESPECT TO THE TERMINATION
 OR RESTORATION OF SERVICES AFTER AN EMERGENCY ORDER IS LIFTED.
   7. Implementation of the provisions of this section  shall  not  limit
 the  contractual  remedies  for  damages which might be available to the
 terminating utility provided that an award of such damages is not incon-
 sistent with any of the provisions of this article.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16225-01-0

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