Senate Bill S7725

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to decisions regarding the siting of major utility transmission facilities

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Energy And Telecommunications Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S7725 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§120 & 126, Pub Serv L

2025-S7725 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes when making a decision regarding the siting of major utility transmission facilities in the case of a gas transmission line the public service commission must determine whether the alternative method of using commercial vehicles for the purpose of transporting liquified natural gas poses a hazard to public safety.

2025-S7725 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7725 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7725
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 1, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. MATTERA -- 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 decisions regard-
   ing the siting of major utility transmission facilities

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 120 of the public service law is amended by  adding
 a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
   6.  "PUBLIC INTEREST" WHEN CONSIDERING THE SITING OF FUEL TRANSMISSION
 LINES, INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED  TO,  THE  CONSIDERATION  OF  ENERGY
 AFFORDABILITY,  RELIABILITY,  AND THE SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF
 OTHER METHODS OF TRANSPORTATION, INCLUDING THE TRANSPORTATION OF  LIQUI-
 FIED NATURAL GAS USING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES.
   §  2.  Paragraph  (h)  of  subdivision  1 of section 126 of the public
 service law, as amended by chapter 521 of the laws of 2015,  is  amended
 and a new paragraph (i) is added to read as follows:
   (h) that the facility will serve the public interest, convenience, and
 necessity,  provided, however, that a determination of necessity made by
 the power authority of the state of New York  pursuant  to  section  ten
 hundred  five  of  the public authorities law for a major utility trans-
 mission facility for which an application has been filed prior  to  July
 first,  nineteen  hundred  seventy-eight pursuant to section one hundred
 twenty-two of this [chapter] ARTICLE, shall be conclusive on the commis-
 sion[.];
   (I) IN THE CASE OF A GAS TRANSMISSION LINE THAT THE ALTERNATIVE METHOD
 OF USING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES FOR THE PURPOSE OF  TRANSPORTING  LIQUIFIED
 NATURAL GAS POSES A HAZARD TO PUBLIC SAFETY.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11695-01-5

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