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                                   5485
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SCHMITT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to certain costs and
   expenses
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivisions  1  and  1-a  of  section 18-a of the public
 service law, subdivision 1 as amended by section 2 of part NN of chapter
 59 of the laws of 2009 and subdivision 1-a as added by section 2 of part
 A of chapter 173 of the laws of 2013, are amended to read as follows:
   1. All costs and expenses of the department and  commission  shall  be
 paid  pursuant  to appropriation on the certification of the chairman of
 the department and upon the audit and warrant of  the  comptroller.  The
 state  treasury  shall  be  reimbursed  therefore by payments to be made
 thereto from all moneys collected pursuant to this  chapter.  [The]  FOR
 STATE  FISCAL YEARS BEGINNING PRIOR TO APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY,
 THE total of such costs and expenses shall be borne by the public utili-
 ty companies (including for the purposes of this section  municipalities
 other  than  municipalities  as defined in section eighty-nine-l of this
 chapter), corporations (including the power authority of  the  state  of
 New  York),  and  persons  subject to the commission's regulation, to be
 assessed in the manner provided in subdivisions two, three and  four  of
 this  section  and  section  two  hundred  seventeen  of  this  chapter.
 PROVIDED HOWEVER FOR THE STATE FISCAL YEAR THAT BEGINS ON  APRIL  FIRST,
 TWO THOUSAND TWENTY, SUCH ASSESSMENT SHALL BE IN AN AMOUNT THAT IS FIFTY
 PERCENT  OF THE AMOUNT CALCULATED IN SUBDIVISIONS TWO, THREE AND FOUR OF
 THIS SECTION AND SECTION TWO HUNDRED SEVENTEEN OF THIS CHAPTER. PROVIDED
 FURTHER FOR STATE FISCAL YEARS THAT BEGIN ON AND AFTER APRIL FIRST,  TWO
 THOUSAND  TWENTY-ONE, THE AMOUNT OF SUCH ASSESSMENT CALCULATED IN SUBDI-
 VISIONS TWO, THREE AND FOUR OF THIS  SECTION  AND  SECTION  TWO  HUNDRED
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 A. 5485                             2
 
 SEVENTEEN  OF THIS CHAPTER SHALL BE ZERO AND ALL COSTS OF THE DEPARTMENT
 AND COMMISSION SHALL BE PAID BY THE STATE TREASURY.
   1-a.  All  costs and expenses of the department related to the depart-
 ment's responsibilities under section three-b of this [chapter]  ARTICLE
 shall  be  paid  pursuant  to  appropriation on the certification of the
 chairman of the department and upon the audit and warrant of  the  comp-
 troller. For the state fiscal [year] YEARS beginning on April first, two
 thousand  fourteen  and  [each  state  fiscal year thereafter] BEGINNING
 PRIOR TO APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE, payments are to  be  made
 from  all moneys collected from the Long Island power authority pursuant
 to this section. The total of such costs and expenses shall be  assessed
 on  such authority in the manner provided in subdivisions two, three and
 four of this section.  PROVIDED HOWEVER FOR THE STATE FISCAL  YEAR  THAT
 BEGINS  ON APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY, SUCH ASSESSMENT SHALL BE IN
 AN AMOUNT THAT IS FIFTY PERCENT OF THE AMOUNT CALCULATED IN SUBDIVISIONS
 TWO, THREE AND FOUR OF THIS SECTION.  PROVIDED FURTHER FOR STATE  FISCAL
 YEARS  THAT BEGIN ON AND AFTER APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE, THE
 AMOUNT OF SUCH ASSESSMENT CALCULATED IN SUBDIVISIONS TWO, THREE AND FOUR
 OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE ZERO  AND  ALL  COSTS  OF  THE  DEPARTMENT  AND
 COMMISSION SHALL BE PAID BY THE STATE TREASURY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.