Assembly Bill A9571A

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to consumer cost mitigation programs

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A9571 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7099
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Add §65-c, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
A1086, S3916

2013-A9571 - Summary

Relates to consumer cost mitigation programs.

2013-A9571 - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  9571

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               May 7, 2014
                               ___________

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

AN  ACT  to  amend  the public service law, in relation to consumer cost
  mitigation programs

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

  Section  1.  Legislative intent. The 2013-14 winter season has brought
severe winter storms and temperatures well below average.  This  unusual
and  unpredictable  weather  has resulted in significantly higher energy
supply costs which has caused drastically higher utility bills for resi-
dential and small business utility customers. The higher utility charges
are a significant burden on our  residents  and  our  small  businesses.
Because utility companies have the expertise to monitor wholesale energy
supply  prices  and to calculate anticipated and actual increases in the
bills of utility customers, this information should be used  to  develop
and  implement  programs  to level out utility costs for these important
customers. Such programs can be structured and  implemented  to  provide
lower  and  more  stable energy costs for customers while simultaneously
allowing public utility companies to recoup their costs over  a  reason-
able  amount  of  time.  Therefore,  the  legislature  hereby  finds and
declares that it is in the public interest to require such  programs  in
order  to  ensure  safe  and  adequate  service with just and reasonable
charges across the state of New York.
  S 2. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 65-c to
read as follows:
  S 65-C. INCREASE IN ENERGY SUPPLY  PRICES;  CONSUMER  COST  MITIGATION
PROGRAM.  1.  SUBJECT  TO  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  SUBDIVISION  TWO OF THIS
SECTION, EACH PUBLIC UTILITY COMPANY SHALL  IMPLEMENT  A  CONSUMER  COST
MITIGATION  PROGRAM  SUBSTANTIALLY  SIMILAR  TO THE PROGRAM DESCRIBED IN
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION CASE NUMBER 14-E-0026  IN  ORDER  TO  MITIGATE
ANTICIPATED   INCREASES  IN  CUSTOMER  UTILITY  CHARGES  RESULTING  FROM
PROJECTED OR ACTUAL INCREASES IN ENERGY SUPPLY PRICES. EACH PUBLIC UTIL-
ITY COMPANY SHALL SUBMIT ITS CONSUMER COST  MITIGATION  PROGRAM  TO  THE

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14711-01-4
              

2013-A9571A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7099
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Add §65-c, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
A1086, S3916

2013-A9571A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to consumer cost mitigation programs.

2013-A9571A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                 9571--A

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               May 7, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on  Energy -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
  and recommitted to said committee

AN  ACT  to  amend  the public service law, in relation to consumer cost
  mitigation programs

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

  Section  1.  Legislative intent. The 2013-14 winter season has brought
severe winter storms and temperatures well below average.  This  unusual
and  unpredictable  weather  has resulted in significantly higher energy
supply costs which has caused drastically higher utility bills for resi-
dential and small business utility customers. The higher utility charges
are a significant burden on our  residents  and  our  small  businesses.
Because utility companies have the expertise to monitor wholesale energy
supply  prices  and to calculate anticipated and actual increases in the
bills of utility customers, this information should be used  to  develop
and  implement  programs  to level out utility costs for these important
customers. Such programs can be structured and  implemented  to  provide
lower  and  more  stable energy costs for customers while simultaneously
allowing public utility companies to recoup their costs over  a  reason-
able  amount  of  time.  Therefore,  the  legislature  hereby  finds and
declares that it is in the public interest to require such  programs  in
order  to  ensure  safe  and  adequate  service with just and reasonable
charges across the state of New York.
  S 2. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 65-c to
read as follows:
  S 65-C. INCREASE IN ENERGY SUPPLY  PRICES;  CONSUMER  COST  MITIGATION
PROGRAM.  1.  SUBJECT  TO  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  SUBDIVISION  TWO OF THIS
SECTION, EACH PUBLIC UTILITY COMPANY SHALL  IMPLEMENT  A  CONSUMER  COST
MITIGATION  PROGRAM  SUBSTANTIALLY  SIMILAR  TO THE PROGRAM DESCRIBED IN
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION CASE NUMBER 14-E-0026  IN  ORDER  TO  MITIGATE
ANTICIPATED   INCREASES  IN  CUSTOMER  UTILITY  CHARGES  RESULTING  FROM
PROJECTED OR ACTUAL INCREASES IN ENERGY SUPPLY PRICES. EACH PUBLIC UTIL-

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

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