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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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2025-S3553 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3025
Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
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

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.

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