assembly Bill A10281A

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Mandates that the public service commission require electric and telecommunications corporations to submit certain reports to evaluate a standardized facility and equipment transfer program

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Assembly Actions - Lowercase
Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jun 18, 2018 referred to rules
delivered to senate
passed assembly
Jun 14, 2018 ordered to third reading rules cal.230
rules report cal.230
reported
Jun 13, 2018 reported referred to rules
Jun 11, 2018 reported referred to ways and means
Jun 05, 2018 reported referred to codes
May 31, 2018 print number 10281a
May 31, 2018 amend (t) and recommit to corporations, authorities and commissions
Apr 10, 2018 referred to corporations, authorities and commissions

A10281 - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Public Services
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A10577
2011-2012: A6181
2013-2014: A8762
2015-2016: A1140
2019-2020: A3332
2021-2022: A5286

A10281 - Summary

Mandates that the public service commission require every electric and telecommunications corporation and association to submit their reports to the commission pursuant to a proceeding of the commission to evaluate a standardized facility and equipment transfer program.

A10281 - Bill Text download pdf


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

                                  10281

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 10, 2018
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring a safe-
  ty and reliability inspection of all telephone poles used by telephone
  corporations  providing  telephone  service  to  more than one million
  subscribers and requiring a safety and reliability inspection  of  all
  utility poles used by electric corporations providing electric service
  to  over 300,000 customers and the replacement or removal of deficient
  poles

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

  Section  1. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby declares that
unsafe, inadequate or unreliable telephone and electrical utility  poles
are  a  danger to the general public and to telecommunications and elec-
trical utility workers; that such telephone and electrical utility poles
impair the effective delivery of telecommunications services;  and  that
the public interest requires increased oversight of the safety and reli-
ability  of  jurisdictional  telecommunications  and  electrical utility
services carried over or by above ground telephone and electrical utili-
ty lines, as such are defined in article 1 of the  public  service  law;
and  that  the public interest requires a set of minimum fines to ensure
compliance with this statute by each telephone corporation serving  over
one  million  subscribers  and  each  electric  corporation serving over
300,000 subscribers.
  § 2. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 98-a to
read as follows:
  § 98-A. SAFETY AND  RELIABILITY  INSPECTION.  1.  THE  PUBLIC  SERVICE
COMMISSION  SHALL,  WITHIN  THIRTY  DAYS  OF  THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS
SECTION, REQUIRE TELEPHONE CORPORATIONS PROVIDING TELEPHONE  SERVICE  TO
MORE  THAN  ONE  MILLION  SUBSCRIBERS, AND ELECTRIC CORPORATIONS SERVING
OVER THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND CUSTOMERS, TO CONDUCT A STUDY OF THE  SAFETY
AND  RELIABILITY OF ALL TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC POLES USED BY SUCH CORPO-
RATIONS TO PROVIDE TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC SERVICE WITHIN  THE  STATE  OF
NEW YORK, AND TO REPORT UPON THE FOLLOWING FACTORS:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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A10281A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Public Services
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A10577
2011-2012: A6181
2013-2014: A8762
2015-2016: A1140
2019-2020: A3332
2021-2022: A5286

A10281A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Mandates that the public service commission require every electric and telecommunications corporation and association to submit their reports to the commission pursuant to a proceeding of the commission to evaluate a standardized facility and equipment transfer program.

A10281A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf


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

                                10281--A

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 10, 2018
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- recommitted to the
  Committee  on  Corporations, Authorities and Commissions in accordance
  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN  ACT mandating that the public service commission require every elec-
  tric and telecommunications  corporation  and  association  to  submit
  their  reports  to  the  commission  pursuant  to  a proceeding of the
  commission to evaluate a standardizes facility and equipment  transfer
  program

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

  Section 1. Pursuant to the jurisdiction granted by paragraphs b and  d
of  subdivision  one  of  section five of public service law, the public
service commission shall require every electric  and  telecommunications
corporation  and  association  to submit their reports to the commission
pursuant to a proceeding of the commission to  evaluate  a  standardized
facility and equipment transfer program within ninety days of the effec-
tive date of this act. The commission shall establish such program on or
before June first, two thousand nineteen.
  § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15143-02-8