Bill Text: NY S00136 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to strengthening of utility storm response and compliance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S00136 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           136

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  MAYER, COMRIE, HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN, SALAZAR -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee on Energy and Telecommunications

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to increasing penal-
          ties  for certain violations committed by combination gas and electric
          corporations

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  5 of section 25-a of the
     2  public service law, as added by section 2 of part X of chapter 57 of the
     3  laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) five hundred thousand dollars or [four one-hundredths]  two-tenths
     5  of  one  percent of the annual intrastate gross operating revenue of the
     6  corporation, not including taxes  paid  to  and  revenues  collected  on
     7  behalf  of  government  entities,  whichever  is greater, constituting a
     8  civil penalty for each separate and distinct offense; provided, however,
     9  that for purposes of this paragraph each day of a  continuing  violation
    10  shall not be deemed a separate and distinct offense. The total period of
    11  a  continuing  violation,  as  well as every distinct violation shall be
    12  similarly treated as a separate and distinct  offense  for  purposes  of
    13  this paragraph; or
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



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