Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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May 27, 2020 |
referred to ways and means |
Assembly Bill A10525
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
MOSLEY
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Charles Barron
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) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 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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