S7198 (2023-24 session)
NY State bill
Authorizes one or more individuals who are under a shared contract to opt-out of such contract without a fee, penalty or charge due to status as a domestic violence victim; prohibits the company from transferring any contractual or billing responsibility of such shared contract to any other account holders on such shared contract; prevents companies from prohibiting a person who has opted-out due to domestic violence status to enter into a new contract.
- Title
- Relates to releasing victims of domestic violence from certain contracts
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2023-24 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2024-05-29
- In committee
- Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
- Introduced
- 2023-05-18
- Active version
- S7198A
- Law section
- Public Service Law
Sponsors
- Kevin S. Parker State Senator, District 21
Co-sponsors
Heard in committee
- Corporations, Authorities and Commissions NY State Assembly committee
- Energy And Telecommunications NY State Senate committee
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Energy And Telecommunications, 2024-05-07 First reading