STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2363
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DINOWITZ, DE LA ROSA, GALEF -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
        AN ACT to amend the public service  law,  in  relation  to  the  minimum
          requirements for a quorum
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 11 of the public service law, as amended by chapter
     2  371 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 11. Quorum; powers of a commissioner.    A  majority  of  the  [duly
     4  appointed  commissioners]  total number of members of the commission, as
     5  such membership is required pursuant to section  four  of  this  article
     6  shall  constitute a quorum and not less than a majority of such [commis-
     7  sioners] total number of members concurring may transact  any  business,
     8  perform  any  duty or exercise any power of the commission.  The commis-
     9  sion may hold meetings of the commission at any time or place within the
    10  state. Any investigation, inquiry or hearing which  the  commission  has
    11  power to undertake or to hold may be undertaken or held by or before any
    12  commissioner  or  before any specially authorized officer or employee of
    13  the commission, provided that at least one commissioner  shall  hold  at
    14  least one public hearing without delegation of authority to any special-
    15  ly  authorized  hearing  officer  or  employee  when  such  hearings are
    16  mandated  by  applications  for  rate  increases.  All   investigations,
    17  inquiries, hearings and decisions of a commissioner or specially author-
    18  ized  officer  or  employee  shall  be  and be deemed to be the investi-
    19  gations, inquiries, hearings and decisions of the commission  and  every
    20  order made by a commissioner, when approved and confirmed by the commis-
    21  sion  and  ordered filed in its office, shall be and be deemed to be the
    22  order of the commission.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    24  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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