STATE OF NEW YORK
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3983--B
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 31, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. FUNKE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged,
bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said
committee
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to limiting
surcharges imposed on ratepayers
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 18 to read as follows:
3 § 18. Limits on uses of surcharges imposed on New York ratepayers.
4 Notwithstanding any law, rule, regulation, policy, order or executive
5 action to the contrary, money collected from ratepayers to support any
6 program related to supporting clean or renewable energy or energy effi-
7 ciency currently in place or any similar successor program, shall not be
8 used to subsidize, incentivize or in any way support energy generated
9 outside of New York state or the United States if such energy is trans-
10 mitted over an electric transmission line, including but not limited to
11 a high voltage direct current electric transmission line, that enters
12 commercial operation after the effective date of this section and that
13 connects a location outside the territorial limits of the United States
14 to a location within New York state and that does not provide access in
15 New York state to electric generating facilities located in New York
16 state to transmit energy to a location within New York state. Further,
17 energy generated outside of the state, and its related environmental
18 attributes, may not be counted against any environmental goal estab-
19 lished by the state or a political subdivision of the state, whether by
20 law, regulation, order, policy or executive action.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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