Bill Text: NY A11100 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires every utility corporation or municipality who sends an emergency notice to consumers to make available and provide such notice in English, Spanish, Haitian-Creole, Mandarin, Cantonese, Arabic, French, Bengali, Urdu, Hindi and Tagalog.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-12-04 - print number 11100a [A11100 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A11100-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                        11100--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 6, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Reyes) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on  Corporations,  Authorities
          and   Commissions  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to  requiring  emer-
          gency notices be provided to consumers in certain languages

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The section heading of section 44  of  the  public  service
     2  law,  as added by chapter 713 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    Utility bills[;] and informational notices.
     5    § 2. Section 44 of the public service law is amended by adding  a  new
     6  subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     7    6.  The  commission shall require every utility corporation or munici-
     8  pality who sends an emergency notice to its consumers to make  available
     9  and  provide  such  emergency notice in English and any other prevailing
    10  language as the commission deems necessary which shall include  Spanish,
    11  Haitian-Creole,  Mandarin,  Cantonese,  Arabic,  French,  Bengali, Urdu,
    12  Hindi and Tagalog.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17405-04-0
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