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S 4943: Provides a one hundred dollar per day credit to customers of electric and gas corporations for power outages of twenty-four hours or more.
What S 4943 does, verified February 4, 2026
The proposed law provides a one hundred dollar per day credit to customers of electric and gas corporations for power outages exceeding twenty-four hours. This credit is intended to compensate customers for the inconvenience and additional costs associated with prolonged power outages. The credit will be credited to the customer's account and can be used to pay charges against the account. The customer is not required to pay on the account until the credit has been completely exhausted. The law will take effect thirty days after it becomes a law.
Bill journey
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3First Chamber FloorPending
4Second ChamberPending
5GovernorPending
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Last action: REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (2026-01-07)Alert me
Quick answers about S 4943
- What is the current status of S 4943?
- As of February 4, 2026, S 4943 is recorded as "Introduced": it has been introduced and is waiting for its first committee hearing or floor vote. The last recorded action, on January 7, 2026, was "REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS".
- Did S 4943 pass?
- Not yet. S 4943 has been introduced and has not passed either house.
- Who wrote S 4943, and where is it now?
- S 4943 was authored by Sen. Leroy Comrie with 1 coauthor. Its committee of record is Senate Energy & Telecommunications.
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| Jan. 07, 2026 | REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS |
| Feb. 14, 2025 | REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, February 14, 2025 · 305 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4943 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 14, 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 providing a one hundred dollar per day credit to customers of electric and gas corpo- rations for power outages of twenty-four hours or more 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 73-b to read as follows: 3 § 73-b. Power outage credit. Every electric corporation and gas corpo- 4 ration in this state shall provide its customers with a credit to such 5 customers' accounts at any time a customer is without power for a period 6 of time in excess of twenty-four hours. Such credit shall be in the 7 amount of one hundred dollars for each twenty-four hour period that a 8 customer is without power and shall only be credited to the account of 9 each customer of such corporation who has been without power for such 10 period of time. Credit to a customer's account made pursuant to this 11 section shall be used to pay charges against such account assessed by 12 the electric corporation or gas corporation and such customer shall not 13 be required to pay on such account until such credit has been completely 14 exhausted. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 16 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05997-01-5
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