Bill Text: NY S01345 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the public service commission to ensure equitable treatment of all retail customers of electric corporations and municipal electric utilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-22 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S01345 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S01345-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1345
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by Sens. MAZIARZ, RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Tele-
communications
AN ACT to amend the public service law and the public authorities law,
in relation to requiring that the public service commission ensure
equitable treatment of all retail customers of electric corporations
and municipal electric utilities
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 21 of section 66 of the public service law, as
2 added by chapter 718 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
3 21. The commission shall require every electric corporation to submit
4 storm plans to the commission for review and approval at such times and
5 in such detail and form as the commission shall require, provided,
6 however, that the same shall be filed at least annually. TO ENSURE THE
7 EQUITABLE TREATMENT OF ALL RETAIL CUSTOMERS IN NEW YORK, THE COMMISSION
8 SHALL REQUIRE THAT THE ELECTRIC CORPORATION'S STORM PLAN RESTORES
9 SERVICE TO RETAIL CUSTOMERS OF ADJACENT ELECTRIC CORPORATIONS AND MUNIC-
10 IPAL ELECTRIC UTILITIES THAT DEPEND ON THE ELECTRIC CORPORATION'S FACIL-
11 ITIES FOR ELECTRIC SERVICE ON A BASIS COMPARABLE TO ITS RETAIL CUSTOM-
12 ERS.
13 S 2. Section 1020-cc of the public authorities law, as amended by
14 chapter 413 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
15 S 1020-cc. Authority subject to certain provisions contained in the
16 state finance law, the public service law, the social services law and
17 the general municipal law. All contracts of the authority shall be
18 subject to the provisions of the state finance law relating to contracts
19 made by the state. The authority shall also establish rules and regu-
20 lations with respect to providing to its residential gas, electric and
21 steam utility customers those rights and protections provided in article
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 two and sections one hundred seventeen and one hundred eighteen of the
2 public service law and section one hundred thirty-one-s of the social
3 services law. The authority shall conform to any safety standards
4 regarding manual lockable disconnect switches for solar electric gener-
5 ating equipment established by the public service commission pursuant to
6 subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision five and subparagraph
7 (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision five-a of section sixty-six-j of
8 the public service law. THE AUTHORITY SHALL SUBMIT STORM PLANS, AT LEAST
9 ANNUALLY, IN SUCH A MANNER SIMILAR IN DETAIL AND FORM AS THE PUBLIC
10 SERVICE COMMISSION REQUIRES PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWENTY-ONE OF
11 SECTION SIXTY-SIX OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE LAW. The authority shall let
12 contracts for construction or purchase of supplies, materials, or equip-
13 ment pursuant to section one hundred three and paragraph (e) of subdivi-
14 sion four of section one hundred twenty-w of the general municipal law.
15 S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
