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Assembly Bill A966

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires that at least one commissioner of the public service commission have experience in utility consumer advocacy

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2019-A966 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2155
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §4, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A8406
2011-2012: A4905, S2517
2013-2014: A2122, S602
2015-2016: A4996, S2476
2017-2018: A4902, S3163
2021-2022: A5838, S1199

2019-A966 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that at least one commissioner of the public service commission have experience in utility consumer advocacy.

2019-A966 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    966
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SIMOTAS, COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
   ABINANTI,  GOTTFRIED  --  read  once  and referred to the Committee on
   Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the public service law,  in  relation  to  requiring  at
   least  one commissioner of the public service commission to have expe-
   rience in utility consumer advocacy

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 4 of the public service law, as
 amended by chapter 155 of the laws  of  1970,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1. There shall be in the department of public service a public service
 commission, which shall possess the powers and duties hereinafter speci-
 fied,  and also all powers necessary or proper to enable it to carry out
 the purposes of this chapter.  The  commission  shall  consist  of  five
 members,  to  be  appointed  by the governor, by and with the advice and
 consent of the senate. A commissioner shall be designated as chairman of
 the commission by the governor to serve in such capacity at the pleasure
 of the governor or until his  term  as  commissioner  expires  whichever
 first occurs. AT LEAST ONE COMMISSIONER SHALL HAVE EXPERIENCE IN UTILITY
 CONSUMER  ADVOCACY.  No  more than three commissioners may be members of
 the same political party unless, pursuant to action taken under subdivi-
 sion two OF THIS SECTION, the number of commissioners shall exceed five,
 and in such event no more than four commissioners may be members of  the
 same political party.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law and shall apply to appointments made on or after  such
 date.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01495-01-9

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