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Senate Bill S9119

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Increases the time certain parties have to submit a notice of intent to be a party to the certification proceedings for the siting of major utility transmission facilities

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2025-S9119 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §124, Pub Serv L

2025-S9119 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the time certain parties have to submit a notice of intent to be a party to the certification proceedings for the siting of major utility transmission facilities from thirty days to forty-five days.

2025-S9119 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9119 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9119
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 4, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. OBERACKER -- 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  increasing  the
   time  certain  parties have to submit a notice of intent to be a party
   to the certification proceedings for the siting of major utility tran-
   smission facilities

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraphs  (i), (j), and (k) of subdivision 1 of section
 124 of the public service law, as added by chapter 272 of  the  laws  of
 1970  and  as relettered by chapter 119 of the laws of 1978, are amended
 to read as follows:
   (i) a municipality entitled to receive notice under paragraph  (a)  of
 subdivision  two of section one hundred twenty-two, if it has filed with
 the commission a notice of intent to be a party, within [thirty]  FORTY-
 FIVE  days  after the date given in the notice as the date for filing of
 the application.
   (j) any individual resident in  a  municipality  entitled  to  receive
 notice  under  paragraph  (a)  of subdivision two of section one hundred
 twenty-two, if [he has] THEY HAVE filed with the commission a notice  of
 intent  to  be  a  party, within [thirty] FORTY-FIVE days after the date
 given in the published notice as the date for filing of the application.
   (k) any domestic non-profit  corporation  or  association,  formed  in
 whole  or  in part to promote conservation or natural beauty, to protect
 the environment, personal health or other biological values, to preserve
 historical sites, to promote consumer interests, to represent commercial
 and industrial groups or to promote the orderly development of the areas
 in which the facility is to be located, if it has filed with the commis-
 sion a notice of intent to become a party,  within  [thirty]  FORTY-FIVE
 days after the date given in the published notice as the date for filing
 of the application.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14682-01-6

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