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Assembly Bill A7445

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Provides for the public election of trustees of the Long Island power authority; repealer

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2013-A7445 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld & add ยง1020-d, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4205
2011-2012: A7409

2013-A7445 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for seventeen trustees of the Long island power authority; sixteen trustees to be elected and one trustee to be appointed by the governor to serve as chair of the authority.

2013-A7445 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7445

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 17, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, McDONOUGH, RAIA -- read once and referred
  to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

AN  ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the board of
  trustees of the Long Island  power  authority  and  repealing  certain
  provisions of such law relating thereto

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

  Section 1. Legislative intent.  The  legislature  finds  and  declares
that:
  1.  the Long Island power authority was established because the legis-
lature believed that matters of state concern would best be  dealt  with
by  replacing  such  investor  owned utility with a publicly owned power
authority;
  2. a public power authority is best governed by representatives of the
public it was established to serve;
  3. a democratic principle of energy production must seek to ensure  an
equitable responsibility for the production of power among the constitu-
ents served;
  4.  in  the  future  Long Island should seek to reformulate its energy
distribution methods so that the various townships will  take  responsi-
bility for producing the power necessary to match growth;
  5.  the  public election of trustees to the power authority will serve
to better represent local interests and issues;
  6. as a matter of public  policy,  relinquishing  local  control  over
power  production  does  not allow siting and technology decisions to be
made by the most impacted population. Therefore, through the election of
local trustees, the communities can work to  accept  the  responsibility
for  the  energy  production  decisions  necessary  to accommodate their
needs; and
  7. the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) was created by the state  to
be  the  retail  supplier  of electricity and is charged with developing

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10075-01-3

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