New York S 4188: Provides a one hundred dollar per day credit to customers of electric and gas corporations for power outages of twenty-four hours or more

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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4188
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 2, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, MAYER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommu-
nications
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to providing a one
hundred dollar per day credit to customers of electric and gas corpo-
rations for power outages of twenty-four hours or more
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 73 to read as follows:
3 § 73. Power outage credit. Every electric corporation and gas corpo-
4 ration in this state shall provide its customers with a credit to such
5 customers' accounts at any time a customer is without power for a period
6 of time in excess of twenty-four hours. Such credit shall be in the
7 amount of one hundred dollars for each twenty-four hour period that a
8 customer is without power and shall only be credited to the account of
9 each customer of such corporation who has been without power for such
10 period of time. Credit to a customer's account made pursuant to this
11 section shall be used to pay charges against such account assessed by
12 the electric corporation or gas corporation and such customer shall not
13 be required to pay on such account until such credit has been completely
14 exhausted.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
16 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03492-01-1