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S8062 • 2025

Requires certain utility corporations and the Long Island power authority to establish a meter usage monitor program

Requires certain utility corporations and the Long Island power authority to establish a meter 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
Lea Webb
Last action
2026-06-05
Official status
In Senate Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Requires certain utility corporations and the Long Island power authority to establish a meter usage monitor program

Requires certain utility corporations and the Long Island power authority to establish a meter 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

  • Requires certain utility corporations and the Long Island power authority to establish a meter 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.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-06-05 Senate

    COMMITTED TO RULES

  2. 2026-06-02 Senate

    RECALLED FROM ASSEMBLY

  3. 2026-06-02 Assembly

    RETURNED TO SENATE

  4. 2026-06-02 Senate

    VOTE RECONSIDERED - RESTORED TO THIRD READING

  5. 2026-06-02 Senate

    AMENDED ON THIRD READING (T) 8062B

  6. 2026-04-16 Assembly

    REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

  7. 2026-04-15 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  8. 2026-04-15 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  9. 2026-02-26 Senate

    AMENDED 8062A

  10. 2026-02-26 Senate

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  11. 2026-02-25 Senate

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  12. 2026-02-24 Senate

    1ST REPORT CAL.399

  13. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    DIED IN ASSEMBLY

  14. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    RETURNED TO SENATE

  15. 2026-01-07 Senate

    REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

  16. 2025-06-05 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  17. 2025-06-05 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  18. 2025-06-05 Assembly

    REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

  19. 2025-06-04 Senate

    COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

  20. 2025-06-04 Senate

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1566

  21. 2025-05-15 Senate

    REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Official Summary Text

Requires certain utility corporations and the Long Island power authority to establish a meter 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
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8062

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      May 15, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBB  --  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 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