senate Bill S1243

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides a limitation on actions to collect overcharges

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Current Bill Status - On Floor Calendar

  • Introduced
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    • Passed Assembly
  • Delivered to Governor
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Actions

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Assembly Actions - Lowercase
Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Feb 06, 2023 advanced to third reading
Feb 01, 2023 2nd report cal.
Jan 31, 2023 1st report cal.216
Jan 11, 2023 referred to judiciary

Votes

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Jan 31, 2023 - Judiciary committee Vote

S1243
15
1
committee
15
Aye
1
Nay
3
Aye with Reservations
0
Absent
0
Excused
0
Abstained
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Judiciary Committee Vote: Jan 31, 2023

aye (15)
nay (1)
aye wr (3)

S1243 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Civil Practice Law and Rules
Laws Affected:
Amd §212, CPLR
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S5941
2015-2016: S3433
2017-2018: S3323
2019-2020: S2730
2021-2022: S1339

S1243 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that an action to recover the amount of an overcharge based upon a mistake or billing error made by an electric, gas or telephone corporation must be commenced within ten years.

S1243 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

S1243 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1243
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 11, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to statute
   of limitations for certain overcharges
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Section 212 of the civil practice law and rules is amended
 by adding a new subdivision (f) to read as follows:
   (F) OVERCHARGE BASED ON MISTAKE OR BILLING ERROR. AN ACTION TO RECOVER
 THE  AMOUNT  OF AN OVERCHARGE BASED UPON A MISTAKE OR BILLING ERROR MADE
 BY AN ELECTRIC, GAS, OR TELEPHONE CORPORATION MUST BE  COMMENCED  WITHIN
 TEN YEARS.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
 causes of action occurring on or after such date.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00390-01-3

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