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Senate Bill S8062A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes a usage monitor program

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2025-S8062 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8823
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §44, Pub Serv L

2025-S8062 - Summary

Establishes a usage monitor program for the purposes of notifying residential customers when energy usage exceeds a cost or usage threshold in a given billing period determined by the residential customer.

2025-S8062 - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8062 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8062
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBB  --  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 establishing a
   usage monitor program
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 44 of the public service law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
   8.  THE COMMISSION SHALL REQUIRE EVERY GAS AND ELECTRIC UTILITY CORPO-
 RATION UTILIZING SMART METERS TO ESTABLISH A USAGE MONITOR  PROGRAM  FOR
 THE  PURPOSES OF NOTIFYING CUSTOMERS WHEN ENERGY USAGE EXCEEDS A COST OR
 USAGE THRESHOLD IN A GIVEN BILLING PERIOD DETERMINED  BY  THE  CUSTOMER.
 THE  USAGE  MONITOR PROGRAM SHALL PROVIDE CUSTOMERS WITH A NOTICE ON THE
 TENTH AND TWENTIETH DAY OF A BILLING CYCLE. THE  USAGE  MONITOR  PROGRAM
 SHALL NOTIFY CUSTOMERS ELECTRONICALLY OR BY MAIL WHEN THEIR ENERGY USAGE
 EXCEEDS  THEIR  DETERMINED  THRESHOLD  AND  INCLUDE AN ESTIMATE OF THEIR
 MONTHLY BILL. THE USAGE MONITOR PROGRAM SHALL BE AN ELECTIVE PROGRAM FOR
 CUSTOMERS TO JOIN. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION,  "SMART  METER"
 SHALL MEAN A METERING DEVICE THAT MEASURES AND TRANSMITS ENERGY USAGE TO
 A UTILITY FOR THE PURPOSES OF BILLING AND MONITORING.
   §  2  This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
 law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13114-01-5

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2025-S8062A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8823
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §44, Pub Serv L

2025-S8062A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a usage monitor program for the purposes of notifying residential customers when energy usage exceeds a cost or usage threshold in a given billing period determined by the residential customer.

2025-S8062A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8062A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8062--A
     Cal. No. 399
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. WEBB, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommu-
   nications  --  recommitted to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
   cations in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably
   from said committee, ordered to first and second  report,  amended  on
   second  report,  ordered  to  a  third reading, and to be reprinted as
   amended, retaining its place in the order of third reading
 
 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation  to  establishing  a
   usage monitor program
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 44 of the public service law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
   8. THE COMMISSION SHALL REQUIRE EVERY GAS AND ELECTRIC UTILITY  CORPO-
 RATION  UTILIZING  SMART METERS TO ESTABLISH A USAGE MONITOR PROGRAM FOR
 THE PURPOSES  OF  NOTIFYING  RESIDENTIAL  CUSTOMERS  WHEN  ENERGY  USAGE
 EXCEEDS  A  COST OR USAGE THRESHOLD IN A GIVEN BILLING PERIOD DETERMINED
 BY THE RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER.
   A. THE USAGE MONITOR PROGRAM SHALL PROVIDE RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS  WITH
 DAILY  UPDATES  ON  THEIR ELECTRICITY AND/OR GAS USAGE. THIS INFORMATION
 SHALL BE VIEWABLE TO THE CUSTOMER ON THE GAS AND/OR ELECTRICITY  UTILITY
 CORPORATION  WEBSITE  WITHIN  A CUSTOMER'S ONLINE ACCOUNT. PARTICIPATING
 RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS SHALL BE ABLE TO  UTILIZE  WITHIN  THEIR  CUSTOMER
 ACCOUNT  A FUNCTION TO SET A MONTHLY USAGE THRESHOLD THAT IS MEASURED IN
 KILOWATT HOURS (KWH) FOR ELECTRICITY  SERVICE,  AND  THERMS  OR  HUNDRED
 CUBIC FEET (CCF) FOR GAS SERVICE.
   B.  THE USAGE MONITOR PROGRAM SHALL NOTIFY RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS ELEC-
 TRONICALLY OR BY MAIL WHEN HALF OF THEIR DETERMINED ENERGY USAGE THRESH-
 OLD IS MET, AND WHEN THEIR  USAGE  THRESHOLD  EXCEEDS  THEIR  DETERMINED
 THRESHOLD. THIS ELECTRONIC AND PAPER NOTIFICATION SHALL INCLUDE AN ESTI-
 MATE OF THEIR MONTHLY BILL.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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