Bill Text: NY A04574 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires utility companies to include on their bills notice of any and all public hearings concerning rate hikes.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-25 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [A04574 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A04574-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4574 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JEAN-PIERRE, D'URSO, STECK, GOTTFRIED, THIELE, SEAWRIGHT, MONTESANO, WALKER, VANEL, RA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BUCHWALD, GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring utility companies to include a notice of public hearings concerning rate increases The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 44 of the public service law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 6 to read as follows: 3 6. Every utility corporation shall include on their bills sent to 4 their customers advance notice of the date and place of any and all 5 public hearings, including but not limited to hearings before the 6 commission, concerning proposed increases in rates of such utility 7 corporation known to such utility corporation at the time of the prepa- 8 ration of such bills. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 10 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06838-01-9
