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New York PBS bills, 2025-2026
Every New York bill filed under PBS in the 2025-2026 session, newest action first. Status, author, and last action are public; tracking, alerts, and analysis open with Connect Plus.
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New York's 2025-2026 session has 91 bills filed under PBS. 0 have been signed into law, 0 vetoed, 0 failed, and 91 are still moving. By status: 81 introduced and 10 passed first house. The most recent recorded action in this group was on June 5, 2026.
Sen. Leroy Comrie (11), Sen. Kevin Parker (8), and Asm. Carrie Woerner (4) have the most bills in this group. 40 started in the Assembly and 51 in the Senate. Every bill below links to its own page with the official summary, author and coauthors, recent actions, and committee of record.
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91 bills · showing the 91 with the most recent action · New York 2025–2026 Legislative Session
BillTitleStatus
S 8062Requires certain utility corporations and the Long Island power authority to establish a meter usage monitor program for the purposes of notifying residential customers when energy usage exceeds a cost or usage threshold in a given billing period determined by the residential customer.New York · last action 2026-06-05Passed first houseA 10135Directs the public service commission to develop, publish, and update a guidebook on the gas and electric ratemaking process to promote public understanding and participation in the gas and electric ratemaking process; facilitates the formal intervention and participation of interested or affected parties; sets forth requirements for what such guidebook shall include.New York · last action 2026-06-04Passed first houseS 9122Directs the public service commission to develop, publish, and update a guidebook on the gas and electric ratemaking process to promote public understanding and participation in the gas and electric ratemaking process; facilitates the formal intervention and participation of interested or affected parties; sets forth requirements for what such guidebook shall include.New York · last action 2026-06-04IntroducedA 10160Requires utilities accept public assistance payments including payments from the home energy assistance programs and emergency funding programs.New York · last action 2026-06-03Passed first houseS 9263Requires utilities accept public assistance payments including payments from the home energy assistance programs and emergency funding programs.New York · last action 2026-06-03IntroducedA 10519Requires the office of renewable energy siting and electric transmission to establish and/or amend rules and regulations pertaining to standards related to the siting, design, construction and operation of major renewable energy facilities; requires such rules and regulations to include information relating to farmland protection and application procedures; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.New York · last action 2026-06-02IntroducedS 2258Requires every utility corporation or municipality who sends an emergency notice to customers to make available and provide such notice in English, Spanish, Haitian-Creole, Mandarin, Cantonese, Arabic, French, Urdu, Russian, Yiddish, Korean, Bangla, Polish, Italian, Hindi and Tagalog.New York · last action 2026-06-02Passed first houseS 8712Requires the office of renewable energy siting and electric transmission to establish and/or amend rules and regulations pertaining to standards related to the siting, design, construction and operation of major renewable energy facilities; requires such rules and regulations to include information relating to farmland protection and application procedures; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.New York · last action 2026-06-01IntroducedS 9966Requires both the department of public service staff and the utility to provide separate, substantive responses to discovery requests and cross-examination questions seeking evidence or explanations related to elements of the joint proposal and explain how any contested aspect of the joint proposal delivers outcomes for utility consumers that are in compliance with all applicable laws and are at least as favorable as would have resulted had its testimonial position been approved by the public service commission.New York · last action 2026-06-01Passed first houseA 8823Requires certain utility corporations and the Long Island power authority to establish a meter usage monitor program for the purposes of notifying residential customers when energy usage exceeds a cost or usage threshold in a given billing period determined by the residential customer.New York · last action 2026-05-21IntroducedA 5328Prohibits electric, gas, telephone, cellular telephone, television, internet, energy, water services or any other utility providers from imposing additional fees related to administrative surcharges, fees for non-use or any other charges to customers living at their primary residence who are over sixty-five years of age or who have a developmental disability.New York · last action 2026-05-19IntroducedA 5786Prohibits termination of electricity or heat service during forecasts of 85 degrees or more than or thirty-two degrees or below.New York · last action 2026-05-19IntroducedA 10830Provides that in the siting of new electric transmission facilities, priority shall be given to major electric transmission facilities that are proposed to be sited in existing rights-of-way including those owned by an electric corporation or distribution utility, or by the state, including any subdivision thereof, or a state public authority, for state highway or transportation purposes, and railroad corridors.New York · last action 2026-05-19IntroducedS 120Prohibits termination of electricity or heat service during forecasts of 85 degrees or more than or thirty-two degrees or below.New York · last action 2026-05-19Passed first houseA 9096Requires electric utility corporations, energy services companies and municipalities to provide an itemized breakdown on all monthly bills detailing infrastructure costs, contributions to the New York Power Authority, and other public utility investments.New York · last action 2026-05-11IntroducedS 1551Prohibits the release of a consumer's electrical or gas consumption data to any police officer, or private, local, state or federal law enforcement entity without a judicial court-ordered subpoena, warrant or the consumer's written consent.New York · last action 2026-05-06Passed first houseS 1552Relates to the establishment of reduced residential rates for electric and natural gas service to low-income customers.New York · last action 2026-05-06IntroducedS 8114Provides that in the siting of new electric transmission facilities, including high-voltage transmission lines, the following corridors shall be utilized in the following order of priority in accordance with feasibility of economic and engineering considerations, reliability of the electric system and the protection of the environment: existing utility corridors; highway (interstate, freeway and state trunk) and railroad corridors; recreational trails, to the extent that the facilities may be constructed below ground and that the facilities do not significantly impact environmentally sensitive areas; and new corridors; provides that the commissioner of transportation shall engage in coordination activities with a utility or transmission line developer to review requested highway corridors for possible permitted locations of transmission lines.New York · last action 2026-04-30IntroducedA 11090Enacts the "automatic utility deferment act" which requires regulated utility providers to automatically suspend termination of service and waive late payment penalties for state employees who are subject to a payroll freeze because the state budget was not passed by April first.New York · last action 2026-04-24IntroducedS 9967Provides that in any rate proceeding, any party may seek to sever from consideration in the settlement process or inclusion in any joint proposal any substantive issue that it discussed in its direct testimony.New York · last action 2026-04-20IntroducedS 9976Allows settlement discussions before the public service commission to be determined publicly.New York · last action 2026-04-20IntroducedS 1701Relates to strengthening of utility storm response and compliance by reviewing mitigating factors including but not limited to mitigating factors and the specifics surrounding the violation or violations.New York · last action 2026-04-16Passed first houseS 9932Requires the department of public service to assign an administrative law judge to oversee the process in policy proceedings before the public service commission; provides that the department of public service shall be considered a party in policy proceedings.New York · last action 2026-04-16IntroducedS 9933Requires the department of public service to assign an administrative law judge to preside over all rate case settlement negotiations.New York · last action 2026-04-16IntroducedA 10965Authorizes municipalities to require a permit for the construction of a major renewable energy facility, major electric transmission facility or certain major electric generating facilities.New York · last action 2026-04-14IntroducedS 9917Authorizes municipalities to require a permit for the construction of a major renewable energy facility, major electric transmission facility or certain major electric generating facilities.New York · last action 2026-04-14IntroducedA 6960Requires electric corporations and gas corporations to provide, as part of every billing statement, a tariff cost estimate in a clear, conspicuous and easily understandable manner; requires such corporations to include an itemized disclosure of the primary cost components comprising the delivery portion of the bill.New York · last action 2026-04-01IntroducedA 10695Allows surplus or uncommitted funds in the New York state climate investment account to be returned to ratepayers; establishes a one-year utility bill tax and surcharge holiday and a two-year green energy tax holiday; relates to audits of utility corporations; authorizes the public service commission to reconsider rate increases; grants customers the right to decline smart meters and prohibits such customers from being penalized or charged exercising such right; directs the public service commission to conduct a study analyzing the economic impact of the use of smart meters; relates to costs and expenses of the department of public service and the public service commission; directs the public service commission to develop a formula to determine the average cost to comply with the provisions set forth in article seventy-five of the environmental conservation law; provides for a ratepayer protection tax credit; repeals certain provisions of law relating to the assessment of costs and expenses of the department of public service and the public service commission.New York · last action 2026-03-20IntroducedA 10648Protects residential customers from utility service shutoffs due to non-payment during summer and winter periods of extreme heat or cold; allows such utility services to be discontinued for non-payment outside such periods; requires an annual report to be submitted to the governor and legislature and posted publicly online.New York · last action 2026-03-19IntroducedA 10635Enacts the "affordable clean energy (ACE) act"; exempts renewable energy systems from certain requirements related to energy facilities (Part A); directs the New York power authority to propose a minimum of two priority transmission projects to address the areas of highest need on the bulk transmission system (Part B); exempts payment in lieu of taxes revenue from property tax cap calculations (Part C).New York · last action 2026-03-13IntroducedS 9422Allows surplus or uncommitted funds in the New York state climate investment account to be returned to ratepayers; establishes a one-year utility bill tax and surcharge holiday and a two-year green energy tax holiday; relates to audits of utility corporations; authorizes the public service commission to reconsider rate increases; grants customers the right to decline smart meters and prohibits such customers from being penalized or charged exercising such right; directs the public service commission to conduct a study analyzing the economic impact of the use of smart meters; relates to costs and expenses of the department of public service and the public service commission; directs the public service commission to develop a formula to determine the average cost to comply with the provisions set forth in article seventy-five of the environmental conservation law; provides for a ratepayer protection tax credit; repeals certain provisions of law relating to the assessment of costs and expenses of the department of public service and the public service commission.New York · last action 2026-03-11IntroducedS 4066Enacts the "affordable clean energy (ACE) act"; exempts renewable energy systems from certain requirements related to energy facilities (Part A); directs the New York power authority to propose a minimum of two priority transmission projects to address the areas of highest need on the bulk transmission system (Part B); exempts payment in lieu of taxes revenue from property tax cap calculations (Part C).New York · last action 2026-03-03IntroducedS 9344Prohibits the issuing of major renewable energy and major electric transmission facility siting permits in designated grassland bird conservation centers including, but not limited to, three such centers in Jefferson county, one center in Saint Lawrence county, the Oak-Orchard-Iroquois center, the Washington County Grasslands center, the Finger Lakes National Forest center and the Shawangunk Grasslands.New York · last action 2026-03-03IntroducedS 5553Enacts the "rate hike notice act" which requires utilities in the state of New York to provide notice of a proposed rate hike to a customer via text, email and via such customer's monthly billing statement.New York · last action 2026-02-05Passed first houseS 7165Authorizes the public service commission to consider non-economic loss suffered by consumers, including pain and suffering or mental anguish, when determining penalties against a public utility company, corporation or person or a combination gas and electric corporation.New York · last action 2026-02-05Passed first houseA 10134Requires the office of renewable energy siting and electric transmission to promptly publish applications for permits to site a major renewable energy facility or to site a major electric transmission facility.New York · last action 2026-02-03IntroducedA 10042Prohibits electric corporations and gas corporations from passing along costs or increasing charges to ratepayers as a result of increased costs incurred due to legal or regulatory proceedings against such electric corporation, gas corporation, or utility, including settlements, attorneys' fees, penalties, fines or costs.New York · last action 2026-01-30IntroducedS 9031Allows 100 of more current customers of a utility to demand that the public service commission perform an audit of a public utility that has knowingly failed or neglected to obey the law or comply with its legal obligations.New York · last action 2026-01-23IntroducedA 9639Prohibits the issuing of major renewable energy and major electric transmission facility siting permits in designated grassland bird conservation centers including, but not limited to, three such centers in Jefferson county, one center in Saint Lawrence county, the Oak-Orchard-Iroquois center, the Washington County Grasslands center, the Finger Lakes National Forest center and the Shawangunk Grasslands.New York · last action 2026-01-21IntroducedS 8946Requires that gas and electric corporations provide in-person customer service representatives and maintain a publicly accessible outage and emergency tracking website.New York · last action 2026-01-20IntroducedS 8947Increases utility rate increase transparency for consumers by requiring additional information be made accessible to the public regarding fuel cost increases and increases in rates or charges.New York · last action 2026-01-20IntroducedS 8935Requires detailed billing for utilities and requiring utility providers to attend local municipal meetings to present proposed rate or charge increases.New York · last action 2026-01-16IntroducedS 8936Requires electric utility corporations, energy services companies and municipalities to provide an itemized breakdown on all monthly bills detailing infrastructure costs, contributions to the New York Power Authority, and other public utility investments.New York · last action 2026-01-16IntroducedS 8915Stabilizes electric costs for New York consumers; restricts unreasonable rate and fee increases; establishes additional auditing and enforcement authorities.New York · last action 2026-01-15IntroducedA 3959Requires a mitigation ratio of one acre for every acre of occupied grassland bird breeding habitat and three acres of mitigation for every acre of grassland bird wintering habitat included in a major electric transmission facility siting permit.New York · last action 2026-01-09IntroducedA 1024Directs telecommunications and cable corporations to provide call center service assistance from centers located within the state and such corporations' service areas; includes a list of what services must be provided.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 2553Prohibits the location and construction of wind turbines on Lake Erie.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 2614Relates to strengthening of utility storm response and compliance by reviewing mitigating factors including but not limited to mitigating factors and the specifics surrounding the violation or violations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 3165Relates to requiring telephone corporations, cable television companies, and internet service providers to automatically refund its customers when their service is not working; provides such credit shall be given even when the service is not working for less than a twenty-four hour period.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4047Prohibits the release of a consumer's electrical or gas consumption data to any police officer, or private, local, state or federal law enforcement entity without a judicial court-ordered subpoena, warrant or the consumer's written consent.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4508Relates to allowing for municipal enforcement of the New York state uniform fire prevention and building code and to the disbursement of intervenor funds under the major renewable energy development program; adds compliance filings as a basis for receiving intervenor funds; provides reimbursement for pre-application activities.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4556Relates to providing residents of municipal public housing in the state with free basic cable and high-speed internet service, and reimbursing internet service providers and cable television companies for providing such service.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4804Requires the office of renewable energy siting to develop standards and conditions for the siting of certain large scale renewable energy systems; requires approval of municipalities to such siting plans.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4870Aligns utility regulation with state climate justice and emission reduction targets; provides for a statewide affordable gas transition plan and utility home energy affordable transition programs; repeals provisions relating to continuation of gas service; repeals provisions relating to the sale of indigenous natural gas for generation of electricity.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5620Relates to the establishment of reduced residential rates for electric and natural gas service to low-income customers.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5666Provides for a priority call system for use in connection with emergency disconnections of utilities, service coverage and oversight of response time in connection with the emergency disconnection of utilities.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 6146Requires local phone companies to provide customers with a cost free option to block certain information-access services; provides such service shall not be included in the telephone company's rate base; requires the public service commission to promulgate rules and regulations relating thereto.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 7509Enacts the "omnibus telecommunications reform act"; reforms the competitive cable service; promotes the wide-spread development of high-capacity broadband internet access; increases the availability and quality of services in this key economic development area; ensures the safety, reliability and affordability of telecommunications services.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 7542Caps public gas corporations, public electric corporations and municipal gas and electric companies at a profit margin of four percent per year.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 7954Directs the public service commission to require electric and steam corporations to provide rate reductions or refunds for inadequate or interrupted service; requires electric corporations to reimburse ratepayers for damages to and losses of property and business caused by power outages in certain instances.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 8025Authorizes the public service commission to consider non-economic loss suffered by consumers, including pain and suffering or mental anguish, when determining penalties against a public utility company, corporation or person or a combination gas and electric corporation.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 8099Provides regulatory control of Internet service providers by the public service commission; requires Internet neutrality; relates to the placement of equipment on utility poles.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 9041Prohibits utilities from raising rates while reporting high profits; requires utilities to reinvest revenues into New York's energy infrastructure, safety, and reliability; requires the submission to the public service commission of a compliance report.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 9064Prohibits electric corporations and gas corporations from passing along costs or increasing charges to ratepayers as a result of increased costs incurred due to the building or operation of a data center except to those ratepayers involved with or associated with the building or operation of such data center or semiconductor fabrication plant.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 9426Stabilizes electric costs for New York consumers; restricts unreasonable rate and fee increases; establishes additional auditing and enforcement authorities.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 1248Provides for a priority call system for use in connection with emergency disconnections of utilities, service coverage and oversight of response time in connection with the emergency disconnection of utilities.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 1333Directs the public service commission to establish quality of service standards, minimum performance levels, customer-specific credits, and reporting requirements that shall apply to each internet service provider.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 1545Relates to instituting internet service neutrality; provides the public service commission with jurisdiction over monitoring broadband internet service providers; requires a certification for internet service neutrality in certain state contracts.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 3682Requires each electric corporation to submit a storm hardening and system resiliency plan to the public service commission for review and approval; makes related provisions.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4054Requires the office of renewable energy siting to develop standards and conditions for the siting of certain large scale renewable energy systems; requires approval of municipalities to such siting plans.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4158Aligns utility regulation with state climate justice and emission reduction targets; provides for a statewide affordable gas transition plan and utility home energy affordable transition programs; repeals provisions relating to continuation of gas service; repeals provisions relating to the sale of indigenous natural gas for generation of electricity.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4179Prohibits utility companies from certain replevin actions; provides that the continued provision of all or any part of gas, electric and steam service to all residential and commercial customers without unreasonable qualifications or lengthy delays is necessary for the preservation of the health and general welfare and is in the public interest; establishes the seizure of electric, gas, or steam meters is against the public interest.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4311Provides that the public service commission shall establish service performance standards for telephone corporations; provides that telephone corporations shall meet such standards; provides penalties for failure to meet such standards.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4532Directs the public service commission to require electric and steam corporations to provide rate reductions or refunds for inadequate or interrupted service; requires electric corporations to reimburse ratepayers for damages to and losses of property and business caused by power outages in certain instances.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5251Requires the public service commission to determine the cost to ratepayers of rules and regulations issued to comply with the New York state climate leadership and community protection act.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5687Caps public gas corporations, public electric corporations and municipal gas and electric companies at a profit margin of four percent per year.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5690Protects residential customers from utility service shutoffs due to non-payment during summer and winter periods of extreme heat or cold; allows such utility services to be discontinued for non-payment outside such periods; requires an annual report to be submitted to the governor and legislature and posted publicly online.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5697Requires utility corporations and municipalities include in an email regarding a bill for service the amount owed on such bill for service where the amount owed is prominently displayed and accurate.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 6491Requires electric corporations and gas corporations to provide, as part of every billing statement, a tariff cost estimate in a clear, conspicuous and easily understandable manner; requires such corporations to include an itemized disclosure of the primary cost components comprising the delivery portion of the bill.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 6566Prohibits the monitoring, collection, recording or storing of data from gas and electric meters any more frequently than on a monthly or billing cycle basis, unless the express written consent of the consumer has been provided; requires the consent of the property owner for entry upon residential property.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 7226Directs the public service commission to provide notice, in a city having a population of one million or more, to the appropriate local community board prior to such commission's consideration of granting permission to a gas corporation or electric corporation furnishing utility service to acquire or sell land; establishes that such community boards shall also be provided with the opportunity to submit comments and recommendations on the proposed sale or acquisition; directs the public service commission to address and respond to such comments and recommendations.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 7725Establishes when making a decision regarding the siting of major utility transmission facilities in the case of a gas transmission line the public service commission must determine whether the alternative method of using commercial vehicles for the purpose of transporting liquified natural gas poses a hazard to public safety.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 8095Requires a mitigation ratio of three acres of mitigation for every acre of occupied grassland bird breeding habitat and one acre of mitigation for every acre of grassland bird wintering habitat included in a major electric transmission facility siting permit.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 8536Prohibits electric corporations and gas corporations from passing along costs or increasing charges to ratepayers as a result of increased costs incurred due to the building or operation of a data center except to those ratepayers involved with or associated with the building or operation of such data center or semiconductor fabrication plant.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 8606Provides that beginning January 1, 2027, any order issued to set the rate of gas and electricity, not including surcharges or tariffs, shall be in effect for three years.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 8645Authorizes ORES to issue siting permits for battery energy storage systems for use by data centers, regardless of the expected storage or transmission capacity of such battery energy storage systems, and whether or not such battery energy storage systems will be co-located with renewable energy systems; requires data centers to submit carbon reduction plans.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 8735Enacts the "billing transparency act"; provides that every utility corporation, energy services corporation and municipality shall provide an itemized breakdown of customers' bills each month; provides that electric utility corporations, energy services companies and municipalities shall maintain a dedicated and easily accessible customer website that explains customer charges.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 8736Prohibits the seizure of utility meters and the termination of utility service through replevin actions; declares such actions to be against the public interest.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 6542Protects residential customers from utility service shutoffs due to non-payment during summer and winter periods of extreme heat or cold; allows such utility services to be discontinued for non-payment outside such periods; requires an annual report to be submitted to the governor and legislature and posted publicly online.New York · last action 2026-01-05IntroducedA 5442Enacts the "rate hike notice act" which requires utilities in the state of New York to provide notice of a proposed rate hike to a customer via text, email and via such customer's monthly billing statement.New York · last action 2025-06-04IntroducedS 3860Provides regulatory control of Internet service providers by the public service commission; requires Internet neutrality; relates to the placement of equipment on utility poles.New York · last action 2025-01-30Introduced
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