A7021 • 2025

Relates to providing transparency to residential utility and municipality ratepayers on the cost impact of the climate action council's scoping plan

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Sponsor: Eric Brown
Last action: 2026-05-11
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to providing transparency to residential utility and municipality ratepayers on the cost impact of the climate action council's scoping plan

Relates to providing transparency to residential utility and municipality ratepayers on the cost impact of the climate action council's scoping plan Requires utility corporations and municipalities to ensure that bills for service to residential customers include a line item for cost impact measures taken in accordance with the climate action council's final scoping plan; requires the department of public service to establish a formula to enable utility corporations and municipalities to calculate the cost impact on each residential customer's bill attributed to measures taken in accordance with the climate action council's final scoping plan.

What This Bill Does

Relates to providing transparency to residential utility and municipality ratepayers on the cost impact of the climate action council's scoping plan Requires utility corporations and municipalities to ensure that bills for service to residential customers include a line item for cost impact measures taken in accordance with the climate action council's final scoping plan; requires the department of public service to establish a formula to enable utility corporations and municipalities to calculate the cost impact on each residential customer's bill attributed to measures taken in accordance with the climate action council's final scoping plan.

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Bill History

2026-05-11 Assembly
HELD FOR CONSIDERATION IN CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS
2025-03-18 Assembly
REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Official Summary Text

Relates to providing transparency to residential utility and municipality ratepayers on the cost impact of the climate action council's scoping plan
Requires utility corporations and municipalities to ensure that bills for service to residential customers include a line item for cost impact measures taken in accordance with the climate action council's final scoping plan; requires the department of public service to establish a formula to enable utility corporations and municipalities to calculate the cost impact on each residential customer's bill attributed to measures taken in accordance with the climate action council's final scoping plan.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          7021

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                     March 18, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN  ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to providing trans-
          parency to residential utility and municipality ratepayers on the cost
          impact of the climate action council's scoping plan

          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  44-a to read as follows:
     3    § 44-A. UTILITY BILLS; COST IMPACT OF NEW YORK  STATE  CLIMATE  ACTION
     4  COUNCIL'S  SCOPING  PLAN.  1. NO LATER THAN ONE YEAR AFTER THE EFFECTIVE
     5  DATE OF THIS SECTION, EVERY UTILITY CORPORATION  OR  MUNICIPALITY  SHALL
     6  ENSURE  THAT  BILLS FOR SERVICE TO RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS INCLUDE A SEPA-
     7  RATE LINE ITEM FOR THE COST IMPACT OF MEASURES TAKEN IN ACCORDANCE  WITH
     8  THE  CLIMATE  ACTION  COUNCIL'S  FINAL  SCOPING PLAN PURSUANT TO ARTICLE
     9  SEVENTY-FIVE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION LAW. SUCH MEASURES  SHALL
    10  INCLUDE,  BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, MONIES SPENT BY THE UTILITY CORPORATION
    11  OR MUNICIPALITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF RENEWABLE POWER  GENERATION,  BATTERY
    12  STORAGE,  NEW TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION LINES, COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH
    13  INTERCONNECTION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS, ANY COSTS ASSOCIATED  WITH
    14  REBATES  OR  SUBSIDIES  FOR CUSTOMER-OWNED ELECTRIC HEATING, COOLING, OR
    15  COOKING APPLIANCES, OR ANY OTHER  PURPOSE  RELATED  TO  COMPLIANCE  WITH
    16  ARTICLE SEVENTY-FIVE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION LAW.
    17    2.  (A) NO LATER THAN ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE
    18  OF THIS SECTION, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ESTABLISH A FORMULA  THAT  ENABLES
    19  EVERY  UTILITY  CORPORATION OR MUNICIPALITY TO CALCULATE THE COST IMPACT
    20  ON EACH RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER'S BILL  ATTRIBUTED  TO  MEASURES  TAKEN  IN
    21  ACCORDANCE  WITH THE CLIMATE ACTION COUNCIL'S FINAL SCOPING PLAN. IN ANY
    22  INSTANCE WHERE COSTS ARE INCURRED BY A UTILITY OR MUNICIPALITY,  BENEFI-
    23  CIAL  FOR BOTH COMPLIANCE WITH ARTICLE SEVENTY-FIVE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL
    24  CONSERVATION LAW AND FOR GENERAL SYSTEM RELIABILITY AND SAFETY  FOR  THE

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09971-02-5
        A. 7021                             2

     1  PROVISION  OF GAS OR ELECTRIC SERVICE, SUCH COSTS SHALL ALSO BE INCLUDED
     2  IN THE FORMULA PROVIDED THAT SUCH COSTS CANNOT BE REASONABLY DECOUPLED.
     3    (B)  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  UPDATE THE FORMULA ON AN ANNUAL BASIS AND
     4  NOTIFY EVERY UTILITY CORPORATION AND MUNICIPALITY WITHIN THIRTY DAYS  OF
     5  SUCH UPDATE.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.