A 10305 New York Assembly · 2025 Regular Session

Relates to protections against utility termination for medical emergencies, life-support equipment and elderly, blind and disabled customers

Summary

Establishes uniform definitions, standardized procedures, and uniform applications or forms, for determining a medical emergency, life-support equipment and designation of elderly, blind and disabled customers protected from termination of utility services.

Issues: ✓ Healthcare

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2026

Committee Review

Jun 2026

Assembly Passage

Jun 2026

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Feb 20, 2026 Last action Jun 4, 2026

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What changed between versions

A10305 → A10305A · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was amended to clarify that protections for elderly, blind, or disabled customers apply to any resident in a household meeting the criteria, regardless of the official account holder. The amendment also reorganizes the definitions and procedures, changing the order of subsections and updating language to ensure standardized forms and automatic approval if a utility fails to act within five business days.

Scope change

The scope was expanded to explicitly include any resident of a household who meets the eligibility criteria, even if the person of record on the utility account does not meet them.

ELIGIBILITY

Added a new provision clarifying that protections apply whenever any household resident meets the criteria, regardless of who is the official customer of record.

DEFINITION

Reordered and slightly rephrased the definitions of medical emergency, life-support equipment, and elderly/disabled status to improve clarity and consistency.

REQUIREMENT

Updated the requirement for utilities to review applications to explicitly state that failure to act within five business days results in automatic approval of the requested designation.

Removed a specific requirement for utilities to provide an annual report to the commission on the number of customers applying for these designations.

Floor votes · Assembly Jun 5, 2026

How they voted

140–0

Passed · 9 other

Total votes 149

Jun 5, 2026

D Democratic102

95 Yea 7

93% Yea

R Republican47

45 Yea 2

95% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

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Key actions

Committee

Amendments

Jun 5, 2026

Assembly · Passed

Assembly Vote: pass (140-0-9)

assembly

Jun 4, 2026

Committee

REFERRED TO RULES

upper

Jun 4, 2026

Lower · Passed

PASSED ASSEMBLY

lower

Apr 29, 2026

Lower · Passed

PRINT NUMBER 10305A

lower

Apr 29, 2026

Lower · Passed

AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

lower

Feb 20, 2026

Committee

REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

lower

1 primary · 6 co-sponsors