Requires detailed billing for utilities and requiring utility providers to attend local municipal meetings to present proposed rate or charge increases.
Establishes a standardized rate application template for utilities; provides that utilities have to provide certain information when filling out a standardized rate application.
Establishes a standardized rate application template for utilities; provides that utilities have to provide certain information when filling out a standardized rate application.
Increases utility rate increase transparency for consumers by requiring additional information be made accessible to the public regarding fuel cost increases and increases in rates or charges.
Increases utility rate increase transparency for consumers by requiring additional information be made accessible to the public regarding fuel cost increases and increases in rates or charges.
Increases tax credits for donations to food pantries made by farmers by increasing the allowable percentage of the fair market value of such donations and increasing the maximum amount of such credit.
Increases tax credits for donations to food pantries made by farmers by increasing the allowable percentage of the fair market value of such donations and increasing the maximum amount of such credit.
Requires certain investor-owned gas or electric corporations to refund ratepayers when their achieved return on equity exceeds authorized rates of return by fifty percent.
Exempts certain utilities from special franchise assessments in New York city; requires that any reduction in special franchise taxes imposed on ConEd and National Grid shall be passed-through to rates charged to its ratepayers so that the full economic benefit of such reduction accrues to their ratepayers.