Assembly Bill A10525

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to issuing a moratorium on utility termination of services during periods of pandemics and/or state of emergencies

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A10525 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8424
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §91, Pub Serv L; amd §5, Chap of 2020 (as proposed in S.8113-A & A.10521)

2019-A10525 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to issuing a moratorium on utility termination of services during periods of pandemics and/or state of emergencies.

2019-A10525 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   10525
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 27, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Mosley) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
 
 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to issuing a morato-
   rium on utility termination of services during  periods  of  pandemics
   and/or  state  of  emergencies;  and to amend a chapter of the laws of
   2020 amending the public service law, relating to issuing a moratorium
   on utility termination of services during periods of pandemics  and/or
   state  of  emergencies,  as  proposed  in  legislative  bills  numbers
   S.8113-A and A.10521, in relation to the effectiveness thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions  9,  10  and  12 of section 91 of the public
 service law, as added by a chapter of the  laws  of  2020  amending  the
 public  service  law, relating to issuing a moratorium on utility termi-
 nation of services during periods of pandemics and/or state of  emergen-
 cies, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.8113-A and A.10521, are
 amended to read as follows:
   9.  No  telephone corporation shall terminate or disconnect a residen-
 tial service customer for the non-payment of an overdue charge  for  the
 duration  of the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to executive
 order two hundred two of two thousand twenty (hereinafter "the  COVID-19
 state  of  emergency").  Telephone  corporations  shall  have  a duty to
 restore service, to the extent not already required under this  chapter,
 [to] AT THE REQUEST OF any residential customer within forty-eight hours
 if  such service has been terminated during the pendency of the COVID-19
 state of emergency AND DISCONNECTION OF SUCH SERVICE WAS DUE TO NON-PAY-
 MENT OF AN OVERDUE CHARGE.
   10. [After] FOR A PERIOD OF ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS AFTER the COVID-19
 state of emergency is lifted or expires, no telephone corporation  shall
 terminate  or  disconnect  the service of a residential customer account
 because of defaulted deferred payment agreements or arrears THEN owed to
 the telephone corporation when such customer has experienced a change in
 financial circumstances due to  the  COVID-19  state  of  emergency,  as
 defined by the department.  The telephone corporation shall provide such
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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