S 1328: Relates to requiring the establishment of utility customer arrears reporting; requires utilities to report to the public service commission on customers who are in arrears.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1328 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 9, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. PARKER, COMRIE, FERNANDEZ, GOUNARDES, HINCHEY, HOYL- MAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, KAVANAGH, KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommunications AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring the establishment of utility customer arrears reporting The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 2 28 to read as follows: 3 § 28. Customer arrears program reporting. 1. For the purposes of this 4 section, "utility" shall mean a municipality, utility corporation as 5 defined in subdivisions twenty-three and twenty-four, water-works corpo- 6 ration as defined in subdivision twenty-seven, an electric corporation 7 as defined in subdivision thirteen, a gas corporation as defined in 8 subdivision eleven, a combination gas and electric corporation as 9 defined in subdivision fourteen, a steam corporation as defined in 10 subdivision twenty-two of section two of this article and any other 11 community water system as defined in 10 NYCRR 5-1.1. 12 2. Each utility shall, within ninety days of the effective date of 13 this section, submit to the commission, in a form and manner determined 14 by the commission, a report on the number of its customers in arrears, 15 the number in arrears at ninety days or greater and the total dollar 16 amount of customer arrears. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03296-01-5