Bill Text: NY S01709 | 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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S01709 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S01709-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1709 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BROOKS -- 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 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