New York Senate Bill S01236 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1236 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- 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 virtual access to public service commission proceedings The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 2 28 to read as follows: 3 § 28. Virtual access to and participation in commission proceedings. 4 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or regulation to the 5 contrary, the commission shall provide for the availability of virtual 6 access to and participation by parties and non-parties in all 7 proceedings and public sessions of the commission, including but not 8 limited to evidentiary hearings, procedural conferences and other formal 9 commission proceedings, to the extent that such parties and non-parties 10 would be permitted to access and participate in such proceedings and 11 public sessions of the commission in person. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 14 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 15 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 16 on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01460-01-5