Relates to fees charged by the power authority of the state of NY; directs the public service commission to study and report on the feasibility of creating smaller municipal electric companies on Long Island.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2548
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 16, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. GRAF, McDONOUGH, MONTESANO, RAIA -- Multi-Spon-
sored by -- M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to fees charged
by the power authority of the state of New York; to direct the public
service commission to study and report on the feasibility of creating
smaller municipal electric companies on Long Island; and to repeal
chapter 173 of the laws of 2013, amending the public authorities law
relating to the powers and duties of the department of public service
and the Long Island power authority
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Chapter 173 of the laws of 2013, amending the public
2 authorities law relating to the powers and duties of the department of
3 public service and the Long Island power authority, is REPEALED.
4 § 2. (a) The public service commission is directed to study the feasi-
5 bility and advisability of creating smaller municipal electric companies
6 on Long Island.
7 (b) This study shall result in a report, which shall detail the feasi-
8 bility and advisability of creating smaller municipal electric companies
9 on Long Island. The study and report shall be filed, on or before Decem-
10 ber 31, 2017, with the governor, the director of the division of the
11 budget, the speaker of the assembly, the temporary president of the
12 senate, the chair of the assembly ways and means committee, the chair of
13 the senate finance committee and the chairs of the assembly standing
14 committee on corporations, authorities and commissions and the senate
15 energy and telecommunications committee. Such study and report shall
16 also be posted on the website of the public service commission by Decem-
17 ber 31, 2017 and shall be deemed a public document.
18 § 3. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new section
19 1005-b to read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 1005-b. Rates. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,
2 beginning December thirty-first, two thousand seventeen the authority
3 shall charge a flat rate per kilowatt hour for all localities.
4 § 4. Notwithstanding any other law, rule, regulation, statute or ordi-
5 nance to the contrary, the state of New York shall assume all financial
6 liability, including debt, of the Long Island power authority upon the
7 creation of smaller municipal electric companies on Long Island.
8 § 5. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
9 have become a law; provided that the addition, amendment and/or repeal
10 of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act
11 on its effective date is authorized to be made on or before such date.
