S 4231: Requires the notification of a public utility company's or municipality's customers when the supply rate increases by at least forty percent and to notify such customers of bill assistance programs by posting on the utility company's website.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4231 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 3, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni- cations AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring the notification of a public utility company's or municipality's customers when the supply rate increases by at least forty percent 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 44-a to read as follows: 3 § 44-a. Increase in energy supply rate; customer notification. When a 4 public utility company or municipality which supplies energy determines 5 that an actual or projected energy supply rate is at least forty percent 6 over the prior month's energy supply rate, such public utility company 7 or municipality shall notify their customers by conspicuously posting on 8 their website their energy supply rate as well as the percent increase 9 in such rate from the prior month. 10 § 2. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 44-b to 11 read as follows: 12 § 44-b. Bill assistance programs; customer notification. Each public 13 utility company or municipality which supplies energy shall notify their 14 customers by conspicuously posting on their website any and all bill 15 assistance programs available to their customers. 16 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03822-01-5