New York S 9031: Allows customers of a utility to call for an independent audit of the utility's records

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S09031 Summary:

BILL NOS09031 

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SPONSOROBERACKER

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Amd §25, Pub Serv L

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Allows 100 of more current customers of a utility to demand that the public service commission perform an audit of a public utility that has knowingly failed or neglected to obey the law or comply with its legal obligations.

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BILL NOS09031 

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01/23/2026REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9031

 IN SENATE

 January 23, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. OBERACKER -- 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 allowing custom-
 ers of a utility to call for an independent audit of the utility's
 records

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

 1 Section 1. Section 25 of the public service law is amended by adding a
 2 new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
 3 8. In the event that a public utility company, corporation or person
 4 and the officers, agents and employees thereof knowingly fails or
 5 neglects to obey or comply with a provision of this chapter or an order
 6 adopted under authority of this chapter for a period of ninety days or
 7 longer, the commission, at the request of one hundred or more current
 8 customers of the entity aggrieved by the entity's failure to comply,
 9 shall conduct a forensic audit of the records and operations of the
 10 entity. This audit shall be in addition to any other audit authorized
 11 under this chapter. The audit shall be completed within one hundred
 12 eighty days of the date of the customer request. The results of the
 13 audit shall be made public on the commission's website.
 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 15 have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14573-01-6

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