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Senate Bill S3872
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Energy And Telecommunications Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2015-S3872 (ACTIVE) - Details
2015-S3872 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S3872
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring
utility companies to include a notice of public hearings concerning
rate increases
PURPOSE OF BILL:
This legislation requires utility companies to post notification of
date and place of proposed hearings concerning rate hikes on the
monthly bills.
JUSTIFICATION:
Utility rate hikes over the years have been the subject of tremendous
controversy. Many consumers feel that the present system of
notification is inadequate and that the most common method of
notification occurs after the fact via the media or the actual
increase in the monthly payment. This legislation is intended to
address the issue of inadequate notification by requiring utility
companies to post the date and place of the hearings on the customer's
bill for service. This is a more appropriate method of notifying
consumers so that they may plan to attend the hearing or submit
comments.
2015-S3872 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
3872
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
February 20, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. PERKINS -- 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:
Section 1. Section 44 of the public service law is amended by adding a
new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
6. EVERY UTILITY CORPORATION SHALL INCLUDE ON THEIR BILLS SENT TO
THEIR CUSTOMERS ADVANCE NOTICE OF THE DATE AND PLACE OF ANY AND ALL
PUBLIC HEARINGS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO HEARINGS BEFORE THE
COMMISSION, CONCERNING PROPOSED INCREASES IN RATES OF SUCH UTILITY
CORPORATION KNOWN TO SUCH UTILITY CORPORATION AT THE TIME OF THE PREPA-
RATION OF SUCH BILLS.
S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08777-01-5
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