S6412 • 2025

Enacts the "ratepayer disclosure and transparency act"

Energy

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Thomas F. O'Mara
Last action: 2026-05-06
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Enacts the "ratepayer disclosure and transparency act"

Enacts the "ratepayer disclosure and transparency act" Enacts the "ratepayer disclosure and transparency act" which requires a monthly report that includes the estimated or actual ratepayer costs and benefits of any mandated state energy program to the governor and legislature including any New York climate leadership and community protection act compliance costs.

What This Bill Does

Enacts the "ratepayer disclosure and transparency act" Enacts the "ratepayer disclosure and transparency act" which requires a monthly report that includes the estimated or actual ratepayer costs and benefits of any mandated state energy program to the governor and legislature including any New York climate leadership and community protection act compliance costs.

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Bill History

2026-05-06 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION
2026-03-09 Senate
NOTICE OF COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION - REQUESTED
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
2025-04-01 Senate
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
2025-04-01 Senate
PRINT NUMBER 6412A
2025-03-13 Senate
REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Official Summary Text

Enacts the "ratepayer disclosure and transparency act"
Enacts the "ratepayer disclosure and transparency act" which requires a monthly report that includes the estimated or actual ratepayer costs and benefits of any mandated state energy program to the governor and legislature including any New York climate leadership and community protection act compliance costs.

Current Bill Text

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

                                          6412

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     March 13, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- 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 enacting the
          "ratepayer disclosure and transparency act"

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

     1    Section  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "ratepayer
     2  disclosure and transparency act".
     3    § 2. The public service law is amended by adding a new section  28  to
     4  read as follows:
     5    §  28. ANNUAL DISCLOSURE AND TRANSPARENCY REPORT. 1. THE COMMISSION IN
     6  CONSULTATION WITH THE NEW YORK STATE  ENERGY  RESEARCH  AND  DEVELOPMENT
     7  AUTHORITY  SHALL ANNUALLY REPORT THE ESTIMATED OR ACTUAL RATEPAYER COSTS
     8  AND BENEFITS OF ANY MANDATED STATE ENERGY  PROGRAM,  INCLUDING  PROGRAMS
     9  ASSOCIATED WITH THE NEW YORK CLIMATE LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY PROTECTION
    10  ACT, TO THE GOVERNOR, THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, THE SPEAKER
    11  OF  THE  ASSEMBLY,  THE SENATE MINORITY LEADER AND THE ASSEMBLY MINORITY
    12  LEADER BY DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST OF EACH YEAR.  IN ADDITION, THE  COMMIS-
    13  SION  SHALL  REQUIRE  ITEMIZED  LISTS OF NEW YORK CLIMATE LEADERSHIP AND
    14  COMMUNITY PROTECTION ACT COMPLIANCE COSTS TO BE PROMINENTLY DISPLAYED ON
    15  THE UTILITY BILLING DOCUMENTS OF EVERY RESIDENT OF THE STATE.
    16    2. ALL INFORMATION  REPORTED  BY  THE  PUBLIC  SERVICE  COMMISSION  AS
    17  REQUIRED  UNDER  SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE
    18  AS A PUBLIC RECORD AND POSTED TO THE PUBLIC SERVICE  COMMISSION  WEBSITE
    19  SIMULTANEOUSLY  WITH  SUBMITTAL TO THE GOVERNOR, THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT
    20  OF THE SENATE, THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY, THE SENATE  MINORITY  LEADER
    21  AND THE ASSEMBLY MINORITY LEADER.
    22    3.  THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO
    23  PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS NECESSARY TO IMPLEMENT  THE  PROVISIONS
    24  OF THIS SECTION.
    25    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08908-01-5