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.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A1190
SPONSOR: Rivera
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the public service law, in relation to certain require-
ments regarding billing for electric services
 
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this bill is to provide pricing transparency of electric
bills for residents and businesses, and to provide customers with better
predictability of future electric bills.
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amends subdivision 14 of Section 66 of the Public Service Law
to provide that classifications of service must be indicated on custom-
ers' bills for electric service and must include the website address to
the specific public service commission leaf.
Section 2 amends subdivision 1 of Section 44 of the Public Service Law
to require that utility bills for residential and demand-metered custom-
ers include certain information to allow customers to better understand
their monthly charges.
Section 3 is the effective date.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
This legislation aims to provide greater transparency in the billing of
residential and commercial electric customers. This level of transparen-
cy will allow residential and commercial customers to better understand
their bills for energy consumption and will enable them to more accu-
rately project costs over time.
 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2021-2022: S.1979-A - Vetoed Memo 145/A.7256-A - Vetoed Memo 145
2019-2020: S.7708 - Passed the Senate
 
STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it
shall have become a law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1190
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 13, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. RIVERA, DINOWITZ, HEVESI, JACKSON, JACOBSON,
MAMDANI, SANTABARBARA, SILLITTI, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, TANNOUSIS -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Energy
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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 66 of the public service law, as
2 amended by chapter 696 of the laws of 1936, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 14. The commission shall have power to require each gas corporation
5 and electric corporation to establish classifications of service based
6 upon the quantity used, the time when used, the purpose for which used,
7 the duration of use and upon any other reasonable consideration, and to
8 establish in connection therewith just and reasonable graduated rates
9 and charges; and it shall have power, either upon complaint or upon its
10 own motion, to require such changes in such classifications, rates and
11 charges as it shall determine to be just and reasonable. Neither the
12 scheduled rates nor the minimum charge for residential customers shall,
13 after July first, nineteen hundred thirty-seven, be based in any manner
14 on the number of outlets, number of rooms, cubic or square foot area or
15 other such standards. Such classifications of service shall be indicated
16 on each customer's bill for electric service and shall include a website
17 address to other information deemed relevant by the commission.
18 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 44 of the public service law, as added
19 by chapter 713 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
20 1. Every utility corporation or municipality shall assure that bills
21 for service to residential and demand-metered customers adequately
22 explain the charges for service in clear and understandable form and
23 language and shall indicate the account number and/or meter number for
24 the account for which service is being charged. The commission may,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 from time to time, specify the form and content of such bills to further
2 the objectives of this subdivision. For utility corporations, such bill
3 shall at a minimum include the quantity billed, the unit of measurement
4 and the highest measurement of a specific line item as measured over the
5 preceding fifty-two week period.
6 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
7 it shall have become a law.