Bill Text: NY A04098 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the wireless service industry to report on current and future plans to pursue renewable energy technology to power macrocells; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-12-21 - signed chap.612 [A04098 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04098-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4098--B
                                                                Cal. No. 445

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 9, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM, SHIMSKY, OTIS, JACOBSON -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commis-
          sions -- recommitted to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and
          Commissions in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.  2  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to  said  committee  --  reported  from committee, advanced to a third
          reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining  its  place  on  the
          order of third reading

        AN  ACT  to amend the general business law, in relation to directing the
          wireless service industry to report on current  and  future  plans  to
          pursue  renewable energy technology to power macrocells; and providing
          for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  399-yyyy to read as follows:
     3    §  399-yyyy. Macrocell renewable energy reporting. 1. Upon the twelfth
     4  month after the effective date of this  section,  the  wireless  service
     5  industry  shall  collaborate  on  and  issue  a white paper reporting on
     6  current and future efforts to pursue renewable energy at macrocell sites
     7  with the report delivered to the governor, the speaker of the  assembly,
     8  the temporary president of the senate, and the chair of the senate ener-
     9  gy  and  telecommunications  committee  and  the  assembly corporations,
    10  authorities and commissions committee. The  report  shall  include,  but
    11  need not be limited to, consideration of the following issues:
    12    (a)  the company's existing and future investments in renewable energy
    13  sources, as corporations generally and at macrocell sites specifically;
    14    (b) the energy demands  of  existing  macrocell  sites  including  any
    15  anticipated increases to demand at such sites;
    16    (c)  the  benefits  and  challenges  of relying on renewable energy to
    17  provision wireless service;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 4098--B                          2

     1    (d) potential impacts to existing backup power sources; and
     2    (e) estimated costs relating to using renewable energy to power macro-
     3  cell sites.
     4    2.  For  purposes of this section, a "macrocell" is a cell in a mobile
     5  phone network that provides radio coverage served by a  high-power  cell
     6  site  (tower,  antenna  or  mast). The "wireless service industry" shall
     7  include wireless carriers, tower companies, and their trade associations
     8  that offer service to New York state customers.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    10  have  become  a  law  and  shall expire and be deemed repealed two years
    11  after it shall have become a law.