New York S 3553: Requires investor-owned energy utilities publish on its customer-facing website both its promotional and educational materials

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S03553 Summary:

BILL NOS03553 

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SAME ASSAME AS A03025

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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 "utility materials disclosure act" to require investor-owned energy utilities publish on its customer-facing website both its promotional and educational materials and file such materials with the public service commission.

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BILL NOS03553 

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01/28/2025REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

02/25/20251ST REPORT CAL.408

02/26/20252ND REPORT CAL.

03/03/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/13/2025COMMITTED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

05/06/20261ST REPORT CAL.990

05/07/20262ND REPORT CAL.

05/11/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/12/2026PASSED SENATE

05/12/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

05/12/2026referred to corporations, authorities and commissions

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3553

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 28, 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 publish on its customer-facing website
 both its promotional and educational materials

 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 "utility materials disclosure act".
 3 § 2. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 28 to
 4 read as follows:
 5 § 28. Materials to be published. 1. For the purposes of this section,
 6 "investor-owned energy utility" shall mean any gas corporation, electric
 7 corporation, or combination gas and electric corporation.
 8 2. The department shall require every investor-owned energy utility
 9 publish on its customer-facing website, and file with the commission,
 10 any promotional and educational materials such investor-owned energy
 11 utility makes available to customers digitally or in print. A list of
 12 such files shall be published with the original title and publication
 13 date on a page that is easily accessible from the website menu.
 14 3. Such materials referenced in subdivision two of this section shall
 15 remain posted on an investor-owned energy utility's customer-facing
 16 website three years from the date such materials are published.
 17 4. If an investor-owned energy utility is found to be in violation of
 18 this section, penalties or sanctions shall be assessed pursuant to
 19 section twenty-five or twenty-five-a of this article, as applicable.
 20 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 21 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 22 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 23 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
 24 on or before such date.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00518-01-5

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