STATE OF NEW YORK
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6547
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 26, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Energy
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to eliminating
certain utility surcharges for certain residential customers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section
2 54 to read as follows:
3 § 54. Elimination of surcharges for certain residential customers.
4 Notwithstanding any law, rule, regulation or order to the contrary,
5 neither the surcharge for the system benefit charge nor the surcharge
6 for the renewable portfolio standard nor the surcharge for the energy
7 efficiency portfolio standard shall apply to, or be applied to, any
8 electric or gas bill for a residential customer that is at least sixty-
9 five years of age whose income level would qualify such customer for the
10 home energy assistance program as described in Part 393 of Title 18 of
11 the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations. No revenues foregone by a gas
12 corporation or an electric corporation or any state entity as a result
13 of the implementation of this section shall be recovered from any other
14 customer or class of customers. The commission shall adopt rules and
15 regulations relating to age and income verification and any other rules
16 and regulations as it deems necessary and proper to implement the
17 provisions of this section.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
19 have become a law; provided however, that effective immediately the
20 public service commission is authorized to amend, revise and/or repeal
21 any rule, regulation, order or policy necessary for the implementation
22 of this act on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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