New York S 1326: Relates to establishing discount programs for low-income senior citizens and individuals with a disability

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S01326 Summary:

BILL NOS01326 

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SAME ASSAME AS A05601

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SPONSORPARKER

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COSPNSRCOMRIE, FERNANDEZ, HINCHEY, JACKSON, MAY

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §§66-x, 89-q, 91-b & 224-d, Pub Serv L

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Relates to establishing discount programs for low-income senior citizens and individuals with a disability; provides that utilities, waterworks corporations, telephone corporations and cable television companies shall create discount programs that provide a 10 percent discount to low-income senior citizens and individuals with a disability; defines terms.

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BILL NOS01326 

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01/09/2025REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

02/11/20251ST REPORT CAL.335

02/12/20252ND REPORT CAL.

02/24/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/13/2025COMMITTED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 1326

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 9, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. PARKER, COMRIE, FERNANDEZ, HINCHEY, JACKSON -- read
 twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
 Committee on Energy and Telecommunications

 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to establishing
 discount programs for low-income senior citizens and individuals with
 a disability

 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 66-x to read as follows:
 3 § 66-x. Utility discount program. 1. (a) Notwithstanding any other
 4 provision of law, the commission is authorized and directed to require a
 5 gas corporation, electric corporation or municipality to establish a
 6 discount program for low-income senior citizens and individuals with a
 7 disability no later than ninety days after the effective date of this
 8 section. Such program shall offer a yearly benefit to low-income senior
 9 citizens and individuals with a disability in the form of a ten percent
 10 discount on utility bills. The fiscal impact of such program shall not
 11 be borne by customers and shall not be added to bills rendered by a gas
 12 corporation, electric corporation or municipality to customers.
 13 (b) A gas corporation, electric corporation or municipality which
 14 offers such discount program shall conspicuously advertise the avail-
 15 ability and amount of such discount on the website of such gas corpo-
 16 ration, electric corporation or municipality. The availability and
 17 amount of such discount shall also be conspicuously advertised on the
 18 accessibility page of the website of such gas corporation, electric
 19 corporation or municipality.
 20 2. For the purposes of this section:
 21 (a) "individuals with a disability" shall mean a primary named utility
 22 service, water service, or telephone service accountholder (i) with a
 23 disability, as defined in subdivision twenty-one of section two hundred

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03282-01-5

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 1 ninety-two of the executive law; and (ii) who has had a total household
 2 income of less than fifty thousand dollars for the most recent two
 3 consecutive income tax years beginning in two thousand twenty, as veri-
 4 fied by the department of taxation and finance; and (iii) who is
 5 currently receiving (A) social security disability insurance (SSDI), (B)
 6 supplemental security income (SSI) benefits under the federal social
 7 security act, (C) disability pension or disability compensation benefits
 8 provided by the United States department of veterans affairs, (D) disa-
 9 bility pension or disability compensation benefits provided by the
 10 United States Postal Service, or (E) those previously eligible by virtue
 11 of receiving disability benefits under the supplemental security income
 12 program or the social security disability program and currently receiv-
 13 ing medical assistance benefits based on determination of disability as
 14 provided in section three hundred six