A11417 • 2025

Requires utilities to automatically enroll customers over the age of fifty-five in any available savings programs

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Sponsor: Rebecca Kassay
Last action: 2026-05-15
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Requires utilities to automatically enroll customers over the age of fifty-five in any available savings programs

Requires utilities to automatically enroll customers over the age of fifty-five in any available savings programs Requires utilities to automatically enroll customers over the age of fifty-five in any available savings programs.

What This Bill Does

Requires utilities to automatically enroll customers over the age of fifty-five in any available savings programs Requires utilities to automatically enroll customers over the age of fifty-five in any available savings programs.

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Bill History

2026-05-15 Assembly
REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Official Summary Text

Requires utilities to automatically enroll customers over the age of fifty-five in any available savings programs
Requires utilities to automatically enroll customers over the age of fifty-five in any available savings programs.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11417

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      May 15, 2026
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Kassay) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on  Corporations,  Authorities
          and Commissions

        AN  ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring utili-
          ties to automatically enroll customers over the age of  fifty-five  in
          any available savings programs

          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  54 to read as follows:
     3    §  54.  UTILITY AUTOMATIC SAVINGS PROGRAM. 1.  WITHIN TWO YEARS OF THE
     4  EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION, NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER  PROVISION  OF
     5  LAW, THE COMMISSION IS AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO REQUIRE UTILITY COMPA-
     6  NIES TO ENROLL ANY CUSTOMER OVER FIFTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE IN ANY DISCOUNT
     7  OR  SAVINGS  PROGRAM  PROVIDED  BY  SUCH UTILITY. AN ENROLLED CUSTOMER'S
     8  MONTHLY BILL SHALL CLEARLY AND CONSPICUOUSLY  STATE  THE  PROGRAMS  SUCH
     9  CUSTOMER  IS ENROLLED IN AND THE SAVINGS FROM SUCH PROGRAMS.  ENROLLMENT
    10  SHALL BE AVAILABLE AT ANY TIME DURING THE YEAR.  UTILITIES SHALL PROVIDE
    11  A MECHANISM FOR A CUSTOMER TO  OPT  OUT  OF  SUCH  PROGRAMS.    FOR  THE
    12  PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "UTILITY COMPANY" SHALL MEAN A UTILITY COMPANY
    13  THAT PROVIDES ELECTRIC, GAS, OR STEAM SERVICE.
    14    2.  A  UTILITY COMPANY WHICH OFFERS SUCH A DISCOUNT OR SAVINGS PROGRAM
    15  SHALL CONSPICUOUSLY ADVERTISE THE AVAILABILITY OF SUCH  PROGRAM  ON  THE
    16  WEBSITE OF SUCH UTILITY COMPANY.
    17    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    18  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14442-01-6