NY State Senate Bill 2025-S5515

Senate Bill S5515

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to providing transparency to residential utility and municipality ratepayers on the cost impact of the climate action council's scoping plan

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Energy And Telecommunications Committee

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- In Committee Assembly
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
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Feb 24, 2025	referred to energy and telecommunications

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2025-S5515 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A7021
Current Committee:: Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:: Public Service Law
Laws Affected:: Add §44-a, Pub Serv L

2025-S5515 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires utility corporations and municipalities to ensure that bills for service to residential customers include a line item for cost impact measures taken in accordance with the climate action council's final scoping plan; requires the department of public service to establish a formula to enable utility corporations and municipalities to calculate the cost impact on each residential customer's bill attributed to measures taken in accordance with the climate action council's final scoping plan.

2025-S5515 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S5515

SPONSOR: CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public service law, in relation to providing trans-
parency to residential utility and municipality ratepayers on the cost
impact of the climate action council's scoping plan

 
PURPOSE:

To require the Department of Public Service to establish a formula for
utility corporations and municipalities to calculate the cost impact of
compliance measures with the CLCPA on ratepayers' utility bills

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1: Adds a new section 44-a to the public service law, which
requires every utility corporation or municipality to include a separate
line item on residential customers' bills for service that lists the
cost impact of measures taken in accordance with the CLCPA.  This
section also details various examples of measures to be listed.  This

section further provides that the department shall establish and provide
a formula for every utility corporation and municipality, which will be
used to calculate the new separated line item. Costs incurred by a util-
ity or municipality that are beneficial for compliance with the CLCPA as
well as general system reliability or gas and electric services shall be
included in the formula.  This section states that the department shall
be responsible for updating the formula annually and notifying the prop-
er stakeholders.

Section 2: Provides the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

As New York transitions to a cleaner energy grid, it is critical that
the transition is managed responsibly and in a manner that does not
burden ratepayers. Further, it is essential that the process is done in
a transparent manner, especially as ratepayers have seen recent spikes
in utility bills.

This bill would provide clarity for New Yorkers and increase transparen-
cy by requiring utility companies to provide a separate line item that
lists costs associated with compliance measures with the CLCPA, such as
monies spent for the purpose of renewable power generation, battery
storage, new transmission or distribution lines, and more. New Yorkers
deserve to know how the state's policies are impacting their budgets.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

Provides transparency on fiscal impacts to ratepayers.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2025-S5515 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5515
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 24, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK  --  read  twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Energy
   and Telecommunications
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to providing trans-
   parency to residential utility and municipality ratepayers on the cost
   impact of the climate action council's scoping plan
 
   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
 44-a to read as follows:
   § 44-A. UTILITY BILLS; COST IMPACT OF NEW YORK  STATE  CLIMATE  ACTION
 COUNCIL'S  SCOPING  PLAN.  1. NO LATER THAN ONE YEAR AFTER THE EFFECTIVE
 DATE OF THIS SECTION, EVERY UTILITY CORPORATION  OR  MUNICIPALITY  SHALL
 ENSURE  THAT  BILLS FOR SERVICE TO RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS INCLUDE A SEPA-
 RATE LINE ITEM FOR THE COST IMPACT OF MEASURES TAKEN IN ACCORDANCE  WITH
 THE  CLIMATE  ACTION  COUNCIL'S  FINAL  SCOPING PLAN PURSUANT TO ARTICLE
 SEVENTY-FIVE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION LAW. SUCH MEASURES  SHALL
 INCLUDE,  BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, MONIES SPENT BY THE UTILITY CORPORATION
 OR MUNICIPALITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF RENEWABLE POWER  GENERATION,  BATTERY
 STORAGE,  NEW TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION LINES, COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH
 INTERCONNECTION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS, ANY COSTS ASSOCIATED  WITH
 REBATES  OR  SUBSIDIES  FOR CUSTOMER-OWNED ELECTRIC HEATING, COOLING, OR
 COOKING APPLIANCES, OR ANY OTHER  PURPOSE  RELATED  TO  COMPLIANCE  WITH
 ARTICLE SEVENTY-FIVE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION LAW.
   2.  (A) NO LATER THAN ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE
 OF THIS SECTION, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ESTABLISH A FORMULA  THAT  ENABLES
 EVERY  UTILITY  CORPORATION OR MUNICIPALITY TO CALCULATE THE COST IMPACT
 ON EACH RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER'S BILL  ATTRIBUTED  TO  MEASURES  TAKEN  IN
 ACCORDANCE  WITH THE CLIMATE ACTION COUNCIL'S FINAL SCOPING PLAN. IN ANY
 INSTANCE WHERE COSTS ARE INCURRED BY A UTILITY OR MUNICIPALITY,  BENEFI-
 CIAL  FOR BOTH COMPLIANCE WITH ARTICLE SEVENTY-FIVE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09971-02-5

 S. 5515                             2
 
 CONSERVATION LAW AND FOR GENERAL SYSTEM RELIABILITY AND SAFETY  FOR  THE
 PROVISION  OF GAS OR ELECTRIC SERVICE, SUCH COSTS SHALL ALSO BE INCLUDED
 IN THE FORMULA PROVIDED THAT SUCH COSTS CANNOT BE REASONABLY DECOUPLED.
   (B)  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  UPDATE THE FORMULA ON AN ANNUAL BASIS AND
 NOTIFY EVERY UTILITY CORPORATION AND MUNICIPALITY WITHIN THIRTY DAYS  OF
 SUCH UPDATE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick