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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relates to the finality of certain utility charges and the contents of utility bills"
+description: "Prohibits utility corporations from charging customers for gas or electric service which was rendered more than three months of the monthly billing period; requires utility corporations to provide a thirteen-month usage history in their bills."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2023-2024"
+identifier: "S 8012"
+citation: "New York S 8012 (2023-2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Michelle Hinchey"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-01-05"
+last_action: "2024-02-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f95ce36-5523-4b71-99ea-d6022851d3e7"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S8012"
+source_hash: "94649c8fee8d52746d95c950eec83ffc2823e4a5531255b1d2bc960db040e355"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
+---
+
+# New York S 8012 (2023-2024) — Relates to the finality of certain utility charges and the contents of utility bills
+
+Prohibits utility corporations from charging customers for gas or electric service which was rendered more than three months of the monthly billing period; requires utility corporations to provide a thirteen-month usage history in their bills.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S8012** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8012&term=2023&Text=Y)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Assembly Vote — **141–5** (pass) · lower
+- Rules Vote — **19–2** (pass) · upper
+- Floor Vote — **44–14** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Michelle Hinchey — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-05** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-08** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.21
+- **2024-01-17** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2024-01-17** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2024-01-17** REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-23** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8542
+- **2024-01-23** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.251
+- **2024-01-30** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2024-01-30** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2024-02-07** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-02-07** SIGNED CHAP.62 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f95ce36-5523-4b71-99ea-d6022851d3e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+