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Assembly Bill A7766A

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires the public service commission to ensure equitable treatment of all retail customers of electric corporations and municipal electric utilities

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2011-A7766 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7414
Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §66, Pub Serv L; amd §1020-cc, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
S1345

2011-A7766 - Summary

Requires the public service commission to ensure equitable treatment of all retail customers of electric corporations and municipal electric utilities.

2011-A7766 - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7766

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 16, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. RUSSELL, CAHILL -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Energy

AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation  to  requiring  that
  the  public service commission ensure equitable treatment to customers
  of municipalities and cooperatives who purchase power from  the  power
  authority of the state of New York

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

  Section 1. Section 66 of the public service law is amended by adding a
new subdivision 20-a to read as follows:
  20-A. IN REVIEWING AND APPROVING ANY PLAN SUBMITTED PURSUANT TO SUBDI-
VISION TWENTY-ONE OF THIS SECTION, THE COMMISSION SHALL ENSURE THAT  THE
PLAN PROVIDES FOR EQUITABLE TREATMENT TO CUSTOMERS OF MUNICIPALITIES AND
COOPERATIVES WHO PURCHASE POWER FROM THE POWER AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF
NEW  YORK.  IN  ANY REVIEW EVALUATING THE RESPONSE OF AN ELECTRIC CORPO-
RATION TO AN ELECTRIC EMERGENCY,  THE  COMMISSION  SHALL  DETERMINE  THE
EXTENT  TO WHICH THE CORPORATION'S PERFORMANCE REFLECTS EQUITABLE TREAT-
MENT OF CUSTOMERS OF SUCH MUNICIPALITIES AND COOPERATIVES.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10739-01-1

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2011-A7766A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7414
Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §66, Pub Serv L; amd §1020-cc, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
S1345

2011-A7766A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the public service commission to ensure equitable treatment of all retail customers of electric corporations and municipal electric utilities.

2011-A7766A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                 7766--A
                                                        Cal. No. 363

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 16, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. RUSSELL, CAHILL -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Energy --  advanced  to  a  third  reading,  amended  and
  ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading

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:

  Section  1. Subdivision 21 of section 66 of the public service law, as
added by chapter 718 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
  21. The commission shall require every electric corporation to  submit
storm  plans to the commission for review and approval at such times and
in such detail and form  as  the  commission  shall  require,  provided,
however,  that the same shall be filed at least annually.  TO ENSURE THE
EQUITABLE TREATMENT OF ALL RETAIL CUSTOMERS IN NEW YORK, THE  COMMISSION
SHALL  REQUIRE  THAT  THE  ELECTRIC  CORPORATION'S  STORM  PLAN RESTORES
SERVICE TO RETAIL CUSTOMERS OF ADJACENT ELECTRIC CORPORATIONS AND MUNIC-
IPAL ELECTRIC UTILITIES THAT DEPEND ON THE ELECTRIC CORPORATION'S FACIL-
ITIES FOR ELECTRIC SERVICE ON A BASIS COMPARABLE TO ITS  RETAIL  CUSTOM-
ERS.
  S  2.  Section  1020-cc  of  the public authorities law, as amended by
chapter 413 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
  S 1020-cc. Authority subject to certain provisions  contained  in  the
state  finance  law, the public service law, the social services law and
the general municipal law. All  contracts  of  the  authority  shall  be
subject to the provisions of the state finance law relating to contracts
made  by  the  state. The authority shall also establish rules and regu-
lations with respect to providing to its residential gas,  electric  and
steam utility customers those rights and protections provided in article
two  and  sections one hundred seventeen and one hundred eighteen of the

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

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