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A01190 Summary:

BILL NOA01190
 
SAME ASSAME AS S00334
 
SPONSORRivera
 
COSPNSRDinowitz, Hevesi, Jackson, Jacobson, Mamdani, Santabarbara, Sillitti, Seawright, Simon, Tannousis, Conrad, Kelles
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §§66 & 44, Pub Serv L
 
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.
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A01190 Actions:

BILL NOA01190
 
01/13/2023referred to energy
03/28/2023reported
03/30/2023advanced to third reading cal.100
05/09/2023passed assembly
05/09/2023delivered to senate
05/09/2023REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
05/16/2023SUBSTITUTED FOR S334
05/16/20233RD READING CAL.125
05/16/2023PASSED SENATE
05/16/2023RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
11/13/2023delivered to governor
11/17/2023vetoed memo.38
11/17/2023tabled
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A01190 Memo:

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.
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A01190 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1190
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        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.
                                                                   LBD02217-02-3

        A. 1190                             2
 
     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.
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A01190 LFIN:

 NO LFIN
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