NY State Senate Bill 2025-S3553

Senate Bill S3553

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires investor-owned energy utilities publish on its customer-facing website both its promotional and educational materials

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Current Bill Status - On Floor Calendar

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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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Mar 03, 2025	advanced to third reading
Feb 26, 2025	2nd report cal.
Feb 25, 2025	1st report cal.408
Jan 28, 2025	referred to energy and telecommunications

Votes

- Feb 25, 2025 - Energy And Telecommunications Committee Vote
  S3553
  
  6
  
  Aye
  
  2
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Energy And Telecommunications Committee Vote: Feb 25, 2025
      
      aye (6)
      
      Gonzalez
      
      Hinchey
      
      Kavanagh
      
      May
      
      Parker
      
      Ryan
      
      nay (2)
      
      Mattera
      
      Walczyk
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      O'Mara

2025-S3553 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A3025
Law Section:: Public Service Law
Laws Affected:: Add §28, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:: S9402, A9299

2025-S3553 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "utility materials disclosure act" to require investor-owned energy utilities publish on its customer-facing website both its promotional and educational materials and file such materials with the public service commission.

2025-S3553 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S3553

SPONSOR: CLEARE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring inve-
stor-owned energy utilities publish on its customer-facing website both
its promotional and educational materials

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

This bill requires investor-owned energy utilities to publish their
materials online and to file them with the PSC. Violations will be
penalized.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1: Short title: This act shall be known and may be cited as the
"Utility Materials Disclosure Act."

Section 2: Amends the public service law to require investor-owned ener-
gy utilities to publish on its customer-facing website, and file with

the commission, any promotional and educational materials that are made
available digitally or in print. Materials published on utility websites
will remain in place for three years. Violations will be assessed pursu-
ant to section twenty-five and twenty-five-a of the public service law.

Section 3: Sets the effective date and provides instructions for imple-
mentation

 
JUSTIFICATION:

As investor-owned energy utilities are increasingly tasked with meeting
their share of the state's Climate Leadership and Community Protection
Act (CLCPA) goals, there is public interest in the promotional and
educational materials that such utilities publish, especially as they
relate to clean energy incentives that have already been funded.

Utilities often discuss their promotional and educational work in
service of the CLCPA goals during rate cases, but it is difficult for
the public to evaluate such efforts without being able to see those
materials.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

This is a new bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This bill is effective immediately.

2025-S3553 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3553
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 28, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- 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 requiring inve-
   stor-owned energy utilities publish  on  its  customer-facing  website
   both its promotional and educational materials

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "utility materials disclosure act".
   §  2.  The public service law is amended by adding a new section 28 to
 read as follows:
   § 28. MATERIALS TO BE PUBLISHED. 1. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS  SECTION,
 "INVESTOR-OWNED ENERGY UTILITY" SHALL MEAN ANY GAS CORPORATION, ELECTRIC
 CORPORATION, OR COMBINATION GAS AND ELECTRIC CORPORATION.
   2.  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL REQUIRE EVERY INVESTOR-OWNED ENERGY UTILITY
 PUBLISH ON ITS CUSTOMER-FACING WEBSITE, AND FILE  WITH  THE  COMMISSION,
 ANY  PROMOTIONAL  AND  EDUCATIONAL  MATERIALS SUCH INVESTOR-OWNED ENERGY
 UTILITY MAKES AVAILABLE TO CUSTOMERS DIGITALLY OR IN PRINT.  A  LIST  OF
 SUCH  FILES  SHALL  BE PUBLISHED WITH THE ORIGINAL TITLE AND PUBLICATION
 DATE ON A PAGE THAT IS EASILY ACCESSIBLE FROM THE WEBSITE MENU.
   3. SUCH MATERIALS REFERENCED IN SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION  SHALL
 REMAIN  POSTED  ON  AN  INVESTOR-OWNED  ENERGY UTILITY'S CUSTOMER-FACING
 WEBSITE THREE YEARS FROM THE DATE SUCH MATERIALS ARE PUBLISHED.
   4. IF AN INVESTOR-OWNED ENERGY UTILITY IS FOUND TO BE IN VIOLATION  OF
 THIS  SECTION,  PENALTIES  OR  SANCTIONS  SHALL  BE ASSESSED PURSUANT TO
 SECTION TWENTY-FIVE OR TWENTY-FIVE-A OF THIS ARTICLE, AS APPLICABLE.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD00518-01-5

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