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                                   8410
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 14, 2025
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 Introduced  by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Energy
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation  to  the  annual
   reporting obligations of the New York state energy research and devel-
   opment authority
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision 7 of section 1867  of
 the  public authorities law, as added by section 1 of part RR of chapter
 58 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) The authority shall submit to  the  governor,  the  chair  of  the
 senate finance committee, [and] the chair of the assembly ways and means
 committee, THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMIT-
 TEE,  AND THE CHAIR OF THE ASSEMBLY ENERGY COMMITTEE, and publish on the
 authority's public website a semi-annual  report  for  the  time  period
 ending  March  thirty-first  no  later  than June first and for the time
 period ending September thirtieth no later than December first  of  each
 year  detailing  the  authority's  activities for the previous six month
 reporting period.
   (b) The semi-annual report required pursuant to paragraph (a) of  this
 subdivision  shall  include  information  with  respect  to all proceeds
 collected and administered by the authority pursuant to an order of  the
 public  service  commission,  including assessments, fees, taxes, trans-
 fers, corporate income or surcharges  imposed  on  energy  consumers  or
 power  generators.  The  semi-annual report shall include, at a minimum,
 the following:
   1. total revenues collected by the authority in the reporting period;
   2. a list of requests for proposals, program opportunity  notices,  or
 similar solicitations, that have been issued in the reporting period;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   3. a description of the criteria and standards utilized for awarding a
 request for proposal, a program opportunity notice, or similar solicita-
 tion;
   4.  a  regional  report  on  all  projects selected for funding by the
 authority during the reporting period, including the county and  utility
 service  territory  in which the project is located, and the total value
 of these projects statewide and by region;
   5. all disbursements or expenditures of revenues pursuant to a request
 for proposal, a program opportunity  notice,  or  similar  solicitation;
 [and]
   6. a list of all contracts executed and completed during the reporting
 period including a description of each project; AND
   7.  A  BRIEF SUMMARY OF ALL PROCEEDS COLLECTED AND ADMINISTERED BY THE
 AUTHORITY PURSUANT TO AN ORDER  OF  THE  PUBLIC  SERVICE  COMMISSION  OR
 PURSUANT  TO  REGULATION,  INCLUDING,  BUT  NOT LIMITED TO, ASSESSMENTS,
 FEES, TAXES, TRANSFERS, CORPORATE INCOME OR SURCHARGES, IMPOSED ON ENER-
 GY CONSUMERS OR POWER GENERATORS,  INCLUDING  A  DESCRIPTION  AND  BASIC
 ACCOUNTING  OF  ALL PROGRAMS OPERATED BY THE AUTHORITY, EITHER INDEPEND-
 ENTLY OR JOINTLY WITH ANOTHER STATE ENTITY, THAT UTILIZE SUCH PROCEEDS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.