S3553 • 2025

Requires investor-owned energy utilities publish on its customer-facing website both its promotional and educational materials

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Sponsor: Cordell Cleare
Last action: 2026-05-12
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires investor-owned energy utilities publish on its customer-facing website both its promotional and educational materials

Requires investor-owned energy utilities publish on its customer-facing website both its promotional and educational materials Enacts the "utility materials disclosure act" to require investor-owned energy utilities publish on its customer-facing website both its promotional and educational materials and file such materials with the public service commission.

What This Bill Does

Requires investor-owned energy utilities publish on its customer-facing website both its promotional and educational materials Enacts the "utility materials disclosure act" to require investor-owned energy utilities publish on its customer-facing website both its promotional and educational materials and file such materials with the public service commission.

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Bill History

2026-05-12 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-05-12 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-05-12 Assembly
REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS
2026-05-11 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-05-07 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-05-06 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.990
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
2025-06-13 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2025-03-03 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2025-02-26 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2025-02-25 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.408
2025-01-28 Senate
REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Official Summary Text

Requires investor-owned energy utilities publish on its customer-facing website both its promotional and educational materials
Enacts the "utility materials disclosure act" to require investor-owned energy utilities publish on its customer-facing website both its promotional and educational materials and file such materials with the public service commission.

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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                                          3553

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    January 28, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations

        AN  ACT  to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring inve-
          stor-owned energy utilities publish  on  its  customer-facing  website
          both its promotional and educational materials

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

     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "utility materials disclosure act".
     3    §  2.  The public service law is amended by adding a new section 28 to
     4  read as follows:
     5    § 28. MATERIALS TO BE PUBLISHED. 1. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS  SECTION,
     6  "INVESTOR-OWNED ENERGY UTILITY" SHALL MEAN ANY GAS CORPORATION, ELECTRIC
     7  CORPORATION, OR COMBINATION GAS AND ELECTRIC CORPORATION.
     8    2.  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL REQUIRE EVERY INVESTOR-OWNED ENERGY UTILITY
     9  PUBLISH ON ITS CUSTOMER-FACING WEBSITE, AND FILE  WITH  THE  COMMISSION,
    10  ANY  PROMOTIONAL  AND  EDUCATIONAL  MATERIALS SUCH INVESTOR-OWNED ENERGY
    11  UTILITY MAKES AVAILABLE TO CUSTOMERS DIGITALLY OR IN PRINT.  A  LIST  OF
    12  SUCH  FILES  SHALL  BE PUBLISHED WITH THE ORIGINAL TITLE AND PUBLICATION
    13  DATE ON A PAGE THAT IS EASILY ACCESSIBLE FROM THE WEBSITE MENU.
    14    3. SUCH MATERIALS REFERENCED IN SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION  SHALL
    15  REMAIN  POSTED  ON  AN  INVESTOR-OWNED  ENERGY UTILITY'S CUSTOMER-FACING
    16  WEBSITE THREE YEARS FROM THE DATE SUCH MATERIALS ARE PUBLISHED.
    17    4. IF AN INVESTOR-OWNED ENERGY UTILITY IS FOUND TO BE IN VIOLATION  OF
    18  THIS  SECTION,  PENALTIES  OR  SANCTIONS  SHALL  BE ASSESSED PURSUANT TO
    19  SECTION TWENTY-FIVE OR TWENTY-FIVE-A OF THIS ARTICLE, AS APPLICABLE.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    21  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    22  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    23  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    24  on or before such date.

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