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Assembly Bill A8441

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Authorizes the Long Island power authority to propose certain rate changes to the public service commission

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2009-A8441 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2727
Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §5, add §24-c, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A3614, S2581

2009-A8441 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the Long Island power authority to propose certain rate changes to the public service commission in the amount of two and one-half percent.

2009-A8441 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  8441

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 20, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SWEENEY, ALESSI, HOOPER, WEISENBERG, FIELDS,
  LAVINE, SCHIMEL, RAMOS, ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred  to  the
  Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

AN  ACT  to amend the public service law, in relation to the Long Island
  power authority

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of section 5 of the public service law is
amended by adding a new paragraph i to read as follows:
  I. TO THE LONG ISLAND POWER AUTHORITY  AND/OR  ITS  SUBSIDIARIES  WHEN
SUCH  AUTHORITY  SHALL  PROPOSE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INCREASE IN AVERAGE
CUSTOMER RATES EXCEEDING TWO AND ONE-HALF PERCENT OVER  A  TWELVE  MONTH
PERIOD,  OR  TO  EXTEND  OR  REESTABLISH ANY PORTION OF A TEMPORARY RATE
INCREASE OVER TWO AND ONE-HALF PERCENT; SUCH PROPOSED  INCREASE,  EXTEN-
SION OR REESTABLISHMENT SHALL NOT BE IMPLEMENTED WITHOUT APPROVAL OF THE
COMMISSION FOLLOWING A FULL EVIDENTIARY HEARING PURSUANT TO REGULATIONS.
  S 2. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 24-c to
read as follows:
  S  24-C.  NOTICE  BY LONG ISLAND POWER AUTHORITY PRIOR TO CERTAIN RATE
CHANGES. PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF PARAGRAPH I OF SUBDIVISION  ONE
OF  SECTION FIVE OF THIS ARTICLE, THE LONG ISLAND POWER AUTHORITY AND/OR
ANY OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES SHALL NOTIFY THE COMMISSION OF ANY PROPOSED RATE
INCREASE EXCEEDING TWO AND ONE-HALF PERCENT OVER A TWELVE  MONTH  PERIOD
OR  THE  EXTENSION OR REESTABLISHMENT OF ANY PORTION OF A TEMPORARY RATE
INCREASE OVER TWO AND ONE-HALF PERCENT, AND SHALL COMPLY WITH APPLICABLE
REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSION FOR  EVIDENTIARY  HEARINGS  PRIOR  TO  THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF ANY SUCH RATE CHANGE.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it  shall  have  become  a law; provided, that effective immediately the
public service commission shall institute the proceedings  necessary  to
review  and/or  amend  the  Long Island power authority's ongoing tariff

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
A                                                          LBD14005-01-9

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