Senate Bill S8077

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires certain call centers to provide the public service commission information regarding closures

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Current Bill Status Via A8530 - Signed by Governor

  • 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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2023-S8077 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8530
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §65, Pub Serv L (as proposed in S.6694 & A.3125-A)

2023-S8077 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that every public utility shall provide the public service commission an affidavit annually, that no call centers or other facilities providing customer service have been closed without notice and hearing before the commission; makes related provisions.

2023-S8077 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8077 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8077
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 5, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring certain
   call centers to provide  the  public  service  commission  information
   regarding closures
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 13 of section 65 of the public
 service law, as added by a chapter of the  laws  of  2023  amending  the
 public  service  law  relating  to  certain call centers, as proposed in
 legislative bills numbers S. 6694 and A. 3125-A, is amended to  read  as
 follows:
   (d)  Every  public  utility  under  this subdivision shall provide the
 [commissioner] COMMISSION an affidavit, annually, that no  call  centers
 or other facilities providing customer assistance set forth in paragraph
 (a)  of  this  subdivision  have  been closed without notice and hearing
 before the commission and  that  the  utility  has  not  relocated  such
 customer  assistance to another area of New York state or outside of New
 York state without notice and hearing before the commission. The affida-
 vit shall be submitted in such form and at such times and shall  contain
 information as the [commissioner] COMMISSION, by rule or regulation, may
 prescribe.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the public service  law
 relating  to  certain  call  centers,  as  proposed in legislative bills
 numbers S. 6694 and A. 3125-A, takes effect.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07662-04-4

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