Bill Text: NY A03155 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the notification of a public utility company's or municipality's customers when the supply rate increases by at least one hundred percent by posting on the utility company's website.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-13 - held for consideration in corporations, authorities and commissions [A03155 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A03155-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3155 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 28, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BYRNE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring the notification of a public utility company's or municipality's customers when the supply rate increases by at least one hundred percent The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 2 44-a to read as follows: 3 § 44-a. Increase in energy supply rate; customer notification. When a 4 public utility company or municipality which supplies energy determines 5 that an actual or projected energy supply rate is at least one hundred 6 percent over the prior month's energy supply rate, such public utility 7 company or municipality shall notify their customers by conspicuously 8 posting on their website their energy supply rate as well as the percent 9 increase in such rate from the prior month. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03096-01-9
