A8823 • 2025

Establishes a usage monitor program

Energy

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Stefani Zinerman
Last action: 2026-05-21
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Establishes a usage monitor program

Establishes a usage monitor program Requires certain utility corporations and the Long Island power authority to establish a meter usage monitor program for the purposes of notifying residential customers when energy usage exceeds a cost or usage threshold in a given billing period determined by the residential customer.

What This Bill Does

Establishes a usage monitor program Requires certain utility corporations and the Long Island power authority to establish a meter usage monitor program for the purposes of notifying residential customers when energy usage exceeds a cost or usage threshold in a given billing period determined by the residential customer.

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Bill History

2026-05-21 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
2026-05-15 Assembly
AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS
2026-05-15 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 8823C
2026-03-04 Assembly
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS
2026-03-04 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 8823B
2026-02-26 Assembly
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS
2026-02-26 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 8823A
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS
2025-06-09 Assembly
REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Official Summary Text

Establishes a usage monitor program
Requires certain utility corporations and the Long Island power authority to establish a meter usage monitor program for the purposes of notifying residential customers when energy usage exceeds a cost or usage threshold in a given billing period determined by the residential customer.

Current Bill Text

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

                                          8823

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      June 9, 2025
                                       ___________

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

        AN  ACT  to  amend the public service law, in relation to establishing a
          usage monitor program

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Section 44 of the public service law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
     3    8.  THE COMMISSION SHALL REQUIRE EVERY GAS AND ELECTRIC UTILITY CORPO-
     4  RATION UTILIZING SMART METERS TO ESTABLISH A USAGE MONITOR  PROGRAM  FOR
     5  THE  PURPOSES OF NOTIFYING CUSTOMERS WHEN ENERGY USAGE EXCEEDS A COST OR
     6  USAGE THRESHOLD IN A GIVEN BILLING PERIOD DETERMINED  BY  THE  CUSTOMER.
     7  THE  USAGE  MONITOR PROGRAM SHALL PROVIDE CUSTOMERS WITH A NOTICE ON THE
     8  TENTH AND TWENTIETH DAY OF A BILLING CYCLE. THE  USAGE  MONITOR  PROGRAM
     9  SHALL NOTIFY CUSTOMERS ELECTRONICALLY OR BY MAIL WHEN THEIR ENERGY USAGE
    10  EXCEEDS  THEIR  DETERMINED  THRESHOLD  AND  INCLUDE AN ESTIMATE OF THEIR
    11  MONTHLY BILL. THE USAGE MONITOR PROGRAM SHALL BE AN ELECTIVE PROGRAM FOR
    12  CUSTOMERS TO JOIN. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION,  "SMART  METER"
    13  SHALL MEAN A METERING DEVICE THAT MEASURES AND TRANSMITS ENERGY USAGE TO
    14  A UTILITY FOR THE PURPOSES OF BILLING AND MONITORING.
    15    §  2  This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
    16  law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13114-01-5