S 2258: Requires 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.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2258 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 16, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Tele- communications AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring emer- gency notices be provided to consumers in certain languages The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The section heading of section 44 of the public service 2 law, as added by chapter 713 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 Utility bills[;] and informational notices. 5 § 2. Section 44 of the public service law is amended by adding a new 6 subdivision 8 to read as follows: 7 8. The commission shall require every utility corporation or munici- 8 pality who sends an emergency notice to its consumers to make available 9 and provide such emergency notice in English and any other prevailing 10 language as the commission deems necessary which shall include Spanish, 11 Haitian-Creole, Mandarin, Cantonese, Arabic, French, Urdu, Hindi and 12 Tagalog. 13 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04959-01-5