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New York · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

A 4078: Relates to establishing requirements and penalties for combination utility companies during service outages

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

A 4078 is a bill introduced in the New York House on January 31, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Relates to establishing requirements and penalties for combination utility companies during service outages. Primary sponsor: Brian Cunningham (Democratic). It lists 4 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (January 7, 2026): REFERRED TO ENERGY.

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Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Relates to establishing requirements and penalties for combination utility companies during service outages; provides that a penalty for failure to reasonably comply with requirements that protect the overall reliability and continuity of combination utility company services shall be up to one hundred dollars per violation or for a pattern or practice of such violations up to one thousand dollars per violation.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2 · Democratic/Working Families 1 · Republican 1 · Republican/Conservative/Independence 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Brian CunninghamPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse43
Keith BrownCo-sponsorRepublican/Conservative/IndependenceHouse12
Simcha EichensteinCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse48
Dave McDonoughCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse14
MaryJane ShimskyCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesHouse92

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. REFERRED TO ENERGY
  2. REFERRED TO ENERGY

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source