Senate Bill S5430

Vetoed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the minimum requirements for a quorum

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

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2019-S5430 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2363
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A9616
2021-2022: S3669, A5897
2023-2024: S1300, A1895

2019-S5430 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the minimum requirements for a quorum; there shall be no less than a majority of the total number of members of the commission in order to transact any business, perform any duty or exercise any power.

2019-S5430 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S5430 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5430
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 1, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered print-
   ed,  and  when  printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and
   Telecommunications
 
 AN ACT to amend the public service  law,  in  relation  to  the  minimum
   requirements for a quorum
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 11 of the public service law, as amended by chapter
 371 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
   § 11. Quorum; powers of a commissioner.    A  majority  of  the  [duly
 appointed  commissioners]  TOTAL NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION, AS
 SUCH MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO SECTION  FOUR  OF  THIS  ARTICLE
 shall  constitute a quorum and not less than a majority of such [commis-
 sioners] TOTAL NUMBER OF MEMBERS concurring may transact  any  business,
 perform  any  duty or exercise any power of the commission.  The commis-
 sion may hold meetings of the commission at any time or place within the
 state. Any investigation, inquiry or hearing which  the  commission  has
 power to undertake or to hold may be undertaken or held by or before any
 commissioner  or  before any specially authorized officer or employee of
 the commission, provided that at least one commissioner  shall  hold  at
 least one public hearing without delegation of authority to any special-
 ly  authorized  hearing  officer  or  employee  when  such  hearings are
 mandated  by  applications  for  rate  increases.  All   investigations,
 inquiries, hearings and decisions of a commissioner or specially author-
 ized  officer  or  employee  shall  be  and be deemed to be the investi-
 gations, inquiries, hearings and decisions of the commission  and  every
 order made by a commissioner, when approved and confirmed by the commis-
 sion  and  ordered filed in its office, shall be and be deemed to be the
 order of the commission.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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