Senate Bill S6692

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Directs utilities to study the potential health risks and effects of smart meters

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Energy And Telecommunications Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S6692 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Services
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S5578
2023-2024: S2587

2019-S6692 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs utilities to study the potential health risks and effects of smart meters including, but not limited to, the risks and effects of the installation of such smart meters, and recommended safe practices associated with the use of smart meters; requires utilities to report their findings to the public service commission; and requires the public service commission to prepare a comprehensive report to the governor and legislature.

2019-S6692 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6692 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6692
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             September 6, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT directing utilities to  study  the  potential  health  risks  and
   effects  of  smart  meters;  and  providing  for  the  repeal  of such
   provisions upon expiration thereof

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Public health study of smart meters. 1. Definition. For the
 purposes  of this section, "smart meter" shall mean a meter that records
 electrical or natural gas consumption in real-time or over short  inter-
 vals  and  communicates  such information to a utility through a two-way
 information exchange.
   2. Utilities operating in the state and offering  smart  meters  shall
 conduct  a  study  of  the  potential  health risks and effects of smart
 meters including, but not limited to,  the  risks  and  effects  of  the
 installation  of such smart meters, and recommended safe practices asso-
 ciated with the use of smart meters.
   3. Not later than one year after the effective date of this act,  each
 utility  shall  report to the public service commission on its findings.
 Not later than eighteen months after the effective date of this act, the
 public service commission shall prepare a comprehensive  report  to  the
 governor  and  the legislature setting forth and evaluating the findings
 of such utilities.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have  become  a  law,  and shall expire and be deemed repealed two years
 after such effective date.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13619-01-9

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