| Date of Action |
Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
|---|---|
| Feb 04, 2025 |
referred to energy and telecommunications |
Senate Bill S4429
2025-2026 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) 14th Senate District
Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Energy And Telecommunications Committee
Actions
2025-S4429 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Energy And Telecommunications
- Law Section:
- Public Service Law
- Laws Affected:
- Add §73-b, Pub Serv L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
-
2019-2020:
S8907
2021-2022: S4190
2023-2024: S5593
2025-S4429 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S4429
SPONSOR: COMRIE
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the public service law, in relation to mandating budget
expenditures by gas and electric corporations to improve power outage
response and to stormproof power lines
PURPOSE:
Requires electric and gas corporations to spend dedicated sums of reven-
ue to improve power outage response and to stormproof power lines.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Adds a new section 73 to the Public Service Law which requires electric
and gas corporations to spend dedicated sums of revenue to improve power
outage response and to stormproof power lines' specifically beginning in
2021, 40 of the operating budget of each utility must be spent on
infrastructure hardening, storm resilience, improving response time to
power outages, removing power lines from trees, removing trees and limbs
2025-S4429 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
4429
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
February 4, 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 mandating budget
expenditures by gas and electric corporations to improve power outage
response and to stormproof power lines
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
73-b to read as follows:
§ 73-B. MANDATORY BUDGET EXPENDITURES TO IMPROVE POWER OUTAGE RESPONSE
AND TO STORMPROOF POWER LINES. 1. FOR THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX
AND EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER, EVERY GAS CORPORATION AND ELECTRIC CORPO-
RATION IN THIS STATE SHALL DEDICATE AND USE FORTY PERCENT OF ITS OPERAT-
ING BUDGET FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING SUCH CORPORATION'S RESPONSE TO
POWER OUTAGES AND STORM RELATED DAMAGE. SUCH BUDGET EXPENDITURES SHALL
BE USED SPECIFICALLY FOR: (A) INFRASTRUCTURE HARDENING; (B) STORM RESI-
LIENCE; (C) IMPROVING RESPONSE TIME TO POWER OUTAGES AND STORM RELATED
DAMAGE, AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SUCH RESPONSE; (D) REMOVING POWER LINES
FROM TREES; AND (E) REMOVING TREES AND TREE LIMBS IN THE VICINITY OF
POWER LINES. THE OBJECTIVE OF SUCH BUDGET EXPENDITURES SHALL BE TO
STORMPROOF POWER LINES THROUGHOUT THE STATE TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF
POWER OUTAGES AND STORM RELATED DAMAGE IN THIS STATE.
2. ON OR BEFORE APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX AND ON OR BEFORE
EVERY JULY FIRST, OCTOBER FIRST, JANUARY FIRST AND APRIL FIRST, THERE-
AFTER, EVERY GAS CORPORATION AND ELECTRIC CORPORATION IN THIS STATE
SHALL FILE A REPORT WITH THE COMMISSION SETTING FORTH DOCUMENTATION, AS
DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSIONER, NECESSARY TO SUBSTANTIATE ITS COMPLIANCE
WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.
3. ANY APPLICATION BY A GAS CORPORATION OR ELECTRIC CORPORATION
SUBMITTED TO THE COMMISSION TO INCREASE ANY RATE CHARGED TO ITS CUSTOM-
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05809-01-5
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