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Senate Bill S9202

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring cellular telephone companies and third-party service providers to provide plans to the public service commission to make all cell towers one hundred percent renewable energy powered by 2030

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2021-S9202 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Add §92-j, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S4305

2021-S9202 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring cellular telephone companies and third-party service providers to provide plans to the public service commission to make all cell towers one hundred percent renewable energy powered by 2030.

2021-S9202 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S9202 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9202
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 12, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
   cations
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring cellu-
   lar telephone companies and third- party service providers to  provide
   plans  to  the  public  service commission to make all cell towers one
   hundred percent renewable energy powered by 2030
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The public service law is amended by adding a new section
 92-j to read as follows:
   § 92-J. CELL TOWERS; RENEWABLE ENERGY.   NOTWITHSTANDING SECTION  FIVE
 OF THIS CHAPTER OR ANY OTHER LAW TO THE CONTRARY, NO LATER THAN DECEMBER
 THIRTY-FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR, ANY CELLULAR TELEPHONE COMPANY
 OR THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDER WHO  OPERATES  CELL  TOWERS  WITHIN  THE
 STATE  SHALL  PROVIDE  PLANS  TO THE COMMISSION TO MAKE ALL CELL TOWERS,
 MAINTAINED AND CONSTRUCTED BY SUCH COMPANY OR  SERVICE  PROVIDER  WITHIN
 THE  STATE, ONE HUNDRED PERCENT RENEWABLE ENERGY POWERED BY TWO THOUSAND
 THIRTY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15794-01-2

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