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Senate Bill S2250

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the minimum requirements for a quorum

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2025-S2250 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S5430, S7838
2021-2022: S3669
2023-2024: S1300

2025-S2250 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the minimum requirements for a quorum; establishes 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.

2025-S2250 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S2250 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2250
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 16, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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 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.
                                                            LBD04967-01-5

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