New York S 8794: Relates to critical energy infrastructure security and responsibility

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S08794 Summary:

BILL NOS08794 

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SAME ASSAME AS A09438

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SPONSORMAY

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §349-d, Gen Bus L; amd §2, Chap of 2025 (as proposed in S.3876 & A.3875)

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Relates to requirements for price comparisons of prices charged by energy services companies on customer bills.

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BILL NOS08794 

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01/08/2026REFERRED TO RULES

01/20/2026ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.80

01/29/2026SUBSTITUTED BY A9438

&nbspA09438 AMEND= Dinowitz

&nbsp01/06/2026referred to energy

&nbsp01/07/2026referred to energy

&nbsp01/13/2026reported referred to rules

&nbsp01/13/2026reported 

&nbsp01/13/2026rules report cal.20

&nbsp01/13/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.20

&nbsp01/20/2026passed assembly

&nbsp01/20/2026delivered to senate

&nbsp01/20/2026REFERRED TO RULES

&nbsp01/29/2026SUBSTITUTED FOR S8794

&nbsp01/29/20263RD READING CAL.80

&nbsp01/29/2026PASSED SENATE

&nbsp01/29/2026RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp02/13/2026delivered to governor

&nbsp02/13/2026signed chap.8

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 8794

 IN SENATE

 January 8, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the requirement
 to include a comparison of prices charged by energy services companies
 on a customer's billing statement; and to amend a chapter of the laws
 of 2025 amending the general business law relating to requiring
 comparison of prices charged by energy services companies, as proposed
 in legislative bills numbers S. 3876 and A. 3875, in relation to the
 effectiveness thereof

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 9 and 10 of section 349-d of the general busi-
 2 ness law, subdivision 9 as amended and subdivision 10 as added by a
 3 chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the general business law relating
 4 to requiring comparison of prices charged by energy services companies,
 5 as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 3876 and A. 3875, are
 6 amended and a new subdivision 10-a is added to read as follows:
 7 9. (a) The first page of each billing statement from an ESCO delivered
 8 to the customer, [either] whether by the ESCO directly [or], by a utili-
 9 ty corporation, by a municipality, or by any other method, shall include
 10 a side-by-side comparison showing both the price charged by the ESCO for
 11 commodity [and] service and the price charged to the customer for deliv-
 12 ery service during the prior billing period, and the price the customer
 13 would have paid had [they] the customer taken both commodity and deliv-
 14 ery service from their local utility corporation or municipality, as
 15 applicable. Such statement shall also include, separately and apart from
 16 the price charged by the ESCO for commodity service and the price
 17 charged to the customer for delivery service, an itemized list of prices
 18 charged by the ESCO for any energy-related value-added products provided
 19 by the ESCO during the prior billing period.
 20 (b) For the purposes of this subdivision and subdivision ten of this
 21 section, "customer" shall mean a person receiving residential utility
 22 service from an ESCO or a small non-residential customer, as that term

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07240-04-6

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 1 is defined in section sixty-six-w of the public service law, receiving
 2 utility service from an ESCO.
 3 10. Every twelve months, an ESCO shall provide each of its customers
 4 with a statement comparing the price charged by the ESCO for commodity
 5 [and delivery services] service, the price charged to the customer for
 6 delivery service and any other energy-related value-added products
 7 charged to the customer as a customer of the ESCO over the prior twelve-
 8 month period with the price such customer would have paid had [they]
 9 such customer taken both commodi