Senate Bill S8202

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to certain requirements regarding billing for electric services

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Current 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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2023-S8202 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§66 & 44, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S7708
2021-2022: S1979

2023-S8202 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Updates certain requirements regarding billing for electric services, such as when corporations shall use an approved demand measuring device, mandating that classifications of service, the account and/or meter number, and the quantity billed be indicated on customers' bills.

2023-S8202 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8202 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8202
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 12, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- 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 certain require-
   ments regarding billing for electric services
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Subdivision 14 of section 66 of the public service law, as
 amended by chapter 696 of the laws  of  1936,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   14.  The  commission  shall have power to require each gas corporation
 and electric corporation to establish classifications of  service  based
 upon  the quantity used, the time when used, the purpose for which used,
 the duration of use and upon any other reasonable consideration, and  to
 establish  in  connection  therewith just and reasonable graduated rates
 and charges; and it shall have power, either upon complaint or upon  its
 own  motion,  to require such changes in such classifications, rates and
 charges as it shall determine to be just  and  reasonable.  Neither  the
 scheduled  rates nor the minimum charge for residential customers shall,
 after July first, nineteen hundred thirty-seven, be based in any  manner
 on  the number of outlets, number of rooms, cubic or square foot area or
 other such standards. SUCH CLASSIFICATIONS OF SERVICE SHALL BE INDICATED
 ON EACH CUSTOMER'S BILL FOR ELECTRIC SERVICE AND SHALL INCLUDE A WEBSITE
 ADDRESS TO OTHER INFORMATION DEEMED RELEVANT BY THE COMMISSION.
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 44 of the public service law,  as  added
 by chapter 713 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  Every  utility corporation or municipality shall assure that bills
 for service  to  residential  AND  DEMAND-METERED  customers  adequately
 explain  the  charges  for  service in clear and understandable form and
 language AND SHALL INDICATE THE ACCOUNT NUMBER AND/OR METER  NUMBER  FOR
 THE  ACCOUNT  FOR  WHICH  SERVICE IS BEING CHARGED.  The commission may,
 from time to time, specify the form and content of such bills to further
 the objectives of this subdivision.  FOR UTILITY CORPORATIONS, SUCH BILL
 SHALL AT A MINIMUM INCLUDE THE QUANTITY BILLED, THE UNIT OF  MEASUREMENT
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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