Makes all costs and expenses of the department of public service and public service commission subject to appropriation by the legislature on the certification of the chair of the department and upon the audit and warrant of the comptroller.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5518
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 24, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. ASHBY -- 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 making all costs
and expenses of the department of public service and public service
commission subject to appropriation by the legislature; and to repeal
certain provisions of section 18-a of the public service law, in
relation thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The section heading and subdivision 1 of section 18-a of
2 the public service law, as amended by section 2 of part NN of chapter 59
3 of the laws of 2009, are amended to read as follows:
4 Costs and expenses of the commission and department [and the assess-
5 ment of such costs and expenses. 1]. All costs and expenses of the
6 department and commission shall be paid pursuant to appropriation by the
7 legislature on the certification of the [chairman] chair of the depart-
8 ment and upon the audit and warrant of the comptroller. [The state trea-
9 sury shall be reimbursed therefore by payments to be made thereto from
10 all moneys collected pursuant to this chapter. The total of such costs
11 and expenses shall be borne by the public utility companies (including
12 for the purposes of this section municipalities other than munici-
13 palities as defined in section eighty-nine-l of this chapter), corpo-
14 rations (including the power authority of the state of New York), and
15 persons subject to the commission's regulation, to be assessed in the
16 manner provided in subdivisions two, three and four of this section and
17 section two hundred seventeen of this chapter.]
18 § 2. Subdivisions 1-a, 2, 3, 4, 4-a, 4-b and 5 of section 18-a of the
19 public service law are REPEALED.
20 § 3. This act shall take effect January 1, 2026.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06172-01-5
