Provides for the expiration of the temporary state energy and utility service conservation assessment at end of each state fiscal year unless the governor requests a continuance of such assessment from the legislature.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1622--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations -- recommitted to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to the imposition of
the temporary state energy and utility service conservation assessment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section 18-a of the
2 public service law, as added by section 4 of part NN of chapter 59 of
3 the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
4 (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, and subject
5 to the exceptions provided for in paragraph (b) of this subdivision, for
6 the state fiscal year beginning on April first, two thousand nine and up
7 to four state fiscal years thereafter, a temporary annual assessment
8 (hereinafter "temporary state energy and utility service conservation
9 assessment") is hereby imposed on public utility companies (including
10 for the purposes of this subdivision municipalities other than munici-
11 palities as defined in section eighty-nine-l of this chapter), corpo-
12 rations (including for purposes of this subdivision the Long Island
13 power authority), and persons subject to the commission's regulation
14 (hereinafter such public utility companies, corporations, and persons
15 are referred to collectively as the "utility entities") to encourage the
16 conservation of energy and other resources provided through utility
17 entities, to be assessed in the manner provided in this subdivision;
18 provided, however, that such assessment shall not be imposed upon tele-
19 phone corporations as defined in subdivision seventeen of section two of
20 this article; and provided, further, that the authority to impose such
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 assessment shall expire at the end of each state fiscal year on or after
2 March thirty-first, two thousand fourteen, unless the governor requests
3 the authority from the legislature to continue to impose the temporary
4 state energy and utility service conservation assessment for an addi-
5 tional fiscal year, after certifying the necessity for such continued
6 assessment to the legislature.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
8 ments to subdivision 6 of section 18-a of the public service law, made
9 by section one of this act, shall not affect the expiration and repeal
10 of such subdivision and shall expire and be deemed repealed therewith.
