S 2258 New York Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Relates to requiring emergency notices be provided to customers in certain languages

Summary

Requires every utility corporation or municipality who sends an emergency notice to customers to make available and provide such notice in English, Spanish, Haitian-Creole, Mandarin, Cantonese, Arabic, French, Urdu, Russian, Yiddish, Korean, Bangla, Polish, Italian, Hindi and Tagalog.

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Jun 2026

Senate Passage

Jun 2026

Assembly Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 16, 2025 Last action Jun 2, 2026

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What changed between versions

S2258 → S2258A · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was amended to expand the list of languages required for utility emergency notices and to clarify the types of notices covered. It also specifies that these notices must be available in both paper and electronic formats (call, text, email).

Scope change

The bill's scope expanded from requiring notices in a specific list of languages to a broader list including Russian, Yiddish, Korean, Bangla, Polish, and Italian, while also clarifying that 'emergency notices' include termination, outage, and work notices.

REQUIREMENT

The list of required languages was expanded to include Russian, Yiddish, Korean, Bangla, Polish, and Italian, in addition to the previously listed languages.

New requirements were added stating that emergency notices must be available in both paper format and electronic formats (call, text, and/or email).

The term 'consumers' was changed to 'customers' to align with standard utility terminology.

DEFINITION

A new definition was added to clarify that 'emergency notices' include termination notices, outage notices, and work notices that impact services.

Floor votes · Senate Jun 2, 2026

How they voted

45–16

Passed · 2 other

Total votes 63

Jun 2, 2026

D Democratic41

39 Yea 2

95% Yea

R Republican22

6 Yea 16 Nay

72% Nay

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

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Key actions

Committee

Amendments

Jun 2, 2026

Committee

REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

lower

Jun 2, 2026

Upper · Passed

PASSED SENATE

upper

Feb 18, 2026

Upper · Passed

PRINT NUMBER 2258A

upper

Feb 18, 2026

Upper · Passed

AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

upper

Jan 7, 2026

Committee

REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

upper

Jan 16, 2025

Committee

REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

upper

1 primary · 1 co-sponsor