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S2258 • 2025

Relates to requiring emergency notices be provided to customers in certain languages

Relates to requiring emergency notices be provided to customers in certain languages

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Leroy Comrie
Last action
2026-06-02
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relates to requiring emergency notices be provided to customers in certain languages

Relates to requiring emergency notices be provided to customers in certain languages Requires every utility corporation or municipality who sends an emergency notice to customers to make available and provide such notice in English, Spanish, Haitian-Creole, Mandarin, Cantonese, Arabic, French, Urdu, Russian, Yiddish, Korean, Bangla, Polish, Italian, Hindi and Tagalog.

What This Bill Does

  • Relates to requiring emergency notices be provided to customers in certain languages Requires every utility corporation or municipality who sends an emergency notice to customers to make available and provide such notice in English, Spanish, Haitian-Creole, Mandarin, Cantonese, Arabic, French, Urdu, Russian, Yiddish, Korean, Bangla, Polish, Italian, Hindi and Tagalog.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-06-02 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  2. 2026-06-02 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  3. 2026-06-02 Assembly

    REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

  4. 2026-04-27 Senate

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  5. 2026-04-22 Senate

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  6. 2026-04-21 Senate

    1ST REPORT CAL.819

  7. 2026-02-18 Senate

    AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

  8. 2026-02-18 Senate

    PRINT NUMBER 2258A

  9. 2026-01-07 Senate

    REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

  10. 2025-01-16 Senate

    REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Official Summary Text

Relates to requiring emergency notices be provided to customers in certain languages
Requires every utility corporation or municipality who sends an emergency notice to customers to make available and provide such notice in English, Spanish, Haitian-Creole, Mandarin, Cantonese, Arabic, French, Urdu, Russian, Yiddish, Korean, Bangla, Polish, Italian, Hindi and Tagalog.

Current Bill Text

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

                                          2258

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    January 16, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. COMRIE, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and  Tele-
          communications

        AN  ACT  to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring emer-
          gency notices be provided to consumers in certain languages

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

     1    Section  1.  The  section  heading of section 44 of the public service
     2  law, as added by chapter 713 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read  as
     3  follows:
     4    Utility bills[;] AND informational notices.
     5    §  2.  Section 44 of the public service law is amended by adding a new
     6  subdivision 8 to read as follows:
     7    8. THE COMMISSION SHALL REQUIRE EVERY UTILITY CORPORATION  OR  MUNICI-
     8  PALITY  WHO SENDS AN EMERGENCY NOTICE TO ITS CONSUMERS TO MAKE AVAILABLE
     9  AND PROVIDE SUCH EMERGENCY NOTICE IN ENGLISH AND  ANY  OTHER  PREVAILING
    10  LANGUAGE  AS THE COMMISSION DEEMS NECESSARY WHICH SHALL INCLUDE SPANISH,
    11  HAITIAN-CREOLE, MANDARIN, CANTONESE, ARABIC,  FRENCH,  URDU,  HINDI  AND
    12  TAGALOG.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04959-01-5