New York S 7556: Requires investor-owned energy utilities to collect and publish data on disadvantaged communities in certain service areas

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S07556 Summary:

BILL NOS07556 

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SAME ASSAME AS A03083

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SPONSORCLEARE

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §28, Pub Serv L

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Enacts the "disadvantaged communities commitment act"; requires investor-owned energy utilities to collect and publish data on disadvantaged communities in certain service areas and file such statistics with the public service commission.

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BILL NOS07556 

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04/22/2025REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7556

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 22, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- 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 inve-
 stor-owned energy utilities to collect and publish data on disadvan-
 taged communities in certain service areas

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "disadvantaged communities commitment act".
 3 § 2. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 28 to
 4 read as follows:
 5 § 28. Disadvantaged communities. 1. For the purposes of this section:
 6 (a) "Investor-owned energy utility" shall mean any gas corporation,
 7 electric corporation, or combination gas and electric corporation.
 8 (b) "Disadvantaged communities" shall have the same meaning as defined
 9 in subdivision five of section 75-0101 of the environmental conservation
 10 law.
 11 2. The department shall require every investor-owned energy utility
 12 publish on its customer facing website, and file with the commission,
 13 statistics from the previous year regarding each disadvantaged community
 14 by census tract in its service area. Such statistics shall include, but
 15 not be limited to, the:
 16 (a) number of residential customers who are electric only;
 17 (b) number of residential customers who are gas only;
 18 (c) number of residential electric and gas customers;
 19 (d) number of residential customers enrolled in energy assistance
 20 program (EAP);
 21 (e) number of residential customers enrolled in home energy assistance
 22 program (HEAP);
 23 (f) number of residential customers enrolled in budget billing;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00516-01-5

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 1 (g) average amount of arrears amongst residential customers;
 2 (h) number of residential customers with active deferred payment
 3 agreements; and
 4 (i) number of residential customers impacted by any other program
 5 designed to provide relief or assistance in paying or lowering their
 6 bills.
 7 3. (a) Such statistics required in subdivision two of this section
 8 shall be published with the commission and remain posted on an inve-
 9 stor-owned energy utility's customer facing website three years from the
 10 date such statistics are published. Further, such statistics shall be
 11 downloadable on an investor-owned energy utility's customer facing
 12 website in a comma-separated value (csv) format.
 13 (b) Such statistics required in subdivision two of this section shall
 14 be posted and filed for the prior calendar year upon the date this
 15 section takes effect. No later than January thirty-first and annually
 16 thereafter, each investor-owned energy utility shall publish and file
 17 such statistics in accordance with this section.
 18 4. For each month an investor-owned energy utility is found to be in
 19 violation of this section, penalties or sanctions shall be assessed
 20 pursuant to section twenty-five or twenty-five-a of this article, as
 21 applicable.
 22 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 23 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 24 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 25 this act on its eff