Assembly Bill A9064

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits electric corporations and gas corporations from increasing charges due to the building or operation of a data center

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A9064 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Energy
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §66, Pub Serv L

2025-A9064 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits electric corporations and gas corporations from passing along costs or increasing charges to ratepayers as a result of increased costs incurred due to the building or operation of a data center except to those ratepayers involved with or associated with the building or operation of such data center or semiconductor fabrication plant.

2025-A9064 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9064
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             September 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Energy
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the public   service law, in relation to prohibiting
   electric corporations and gas corporations from increasing charges  to
   certain  ratepayers  due to the building or operation of a data center
   or semiconductor fabrication plant

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 66 of the public service law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 33 to read as follows:
   33.  PROHIBIT  ELECTRIC  CORPORATIONS, GAS CORPORATIONS, AND UTILITIES
 FROM PASSING ALONG COSTS OR INCREASING CHARGES TO RATEPAYERS  FOR  ELEC-
 TRICITY  AND  NATURAL  GAS,  OR  ANY ASSOCIATED GOODS AND SERVICES, AS A
 RESULT OF INCREASED COSTS INCURRED  BY  THE  ELECTRIC  CORPORATION,  GAS
 CORPORATION,  OR  UTILITY  DUE  TO  THE COSTS OF CAPITAL EXPENDITURES OR
 MAINTENANCE OF INFRASTRUCTURE RESULTING FROM THE BUILDING  OR  OPERATION
 OF  A DATA CENTER OR SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATION PLANT; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
 THAT SUCH COSTS OR INCREASED CHARGES  SHALL  BE  CHARGED  TO  RATEPAYERS
 INVOLVED  WITH OR ASSOCIATED WITH THE BUILDING OR OPERATION OF SUCH DATA
 CENTER OR SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATION PLANT.
   § 2.  This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day  after  it  shall
 have  become  a  law.    Effective  immediately, the addition, amendment
 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
 of this act on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to  be  made  and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13633-03-5

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