Requires the public service commission to determine the cost to ratepayers of rules and regulations issued to comply with the New York state climate leadership and community protection act.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5251
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 20, 2025
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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 informational
notices provided on utility bills relating to compliance with the New
York state climate leadership and community protection act
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "CLCPA transparency act".
3 § 2. Section 44 of the public service law is amended by adding a new
4 subdivision 8 to read as follows:
5 8. (a) The commission shall develop a formula to determine the cost,
6 on a per ratepayer basis, to comply with the provisions set forth in
7 article seventy-five of the environmental conservation law, or any other
8 rule or regulation promulgated by a state agency prior to the effective
9 date of this subdivision, or any subsequent action taken thereafter, to
10 meet the emissions goals set forth by such article seventy-five.
11 (b) Beginning March first, two thousand twenty-six, at least thirty
12 days prior to issuing any order, directive, rule, or regulation the
13 commission shall disclose to the public through public notice and on the
14 commission's website the cost, as determined by the formula developed by
15 the commission pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision, of any
16 order, directive, rule, or regulation issued by the commission to comply
17 with any provision of article seventy-five of the environmental conser-
18 vation law.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04766-01-5
