STATE OF NEW YORK
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2883
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 26, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. GAUGHRAN -- 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 authorities law, in relation to restoring
oversight of service provider and third party contracts entered into
by 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. Subdivision 2 of section 1020-cc of the public authorities
2 law, as added by section 11 of part A of chapter 173 of the laws of
3 2013, is amended to read as follows:
4 2. The authority and service provider shall provide to the state comp-
5 troller on March thirty-first and September thirtieth of each year a
6 report documenting each contract in excess of two hundred fifty thousand
7 dollars per year entered into with a third party and related to manage-
8 ment and operation services associated with the authority's electric
9 transmission and distribution system, including the name of the third
10 party, the contract term and a description of services or goods to be
11 procured, and post such report on each of their websites. [All contracts
12 entered into between the service provider and third parties are not
13 subject to the requirements of subdivision one of this section.]
14 § 2. Severability. If any provision of this act or the application
15 thereof shall for any reason be adjudged by any court of competent
16 jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or
17 invalidate the remainder of this act, but shall be confined in its oper-
18 ation to the provision thereof directly involved in the controversy in
19 which the judgment shall have been rendered.
20 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05834-01-1