Amd §44, Pub Serv L; amd §1005, ren §§1020-jj - 1020-ll to be §§1020-xx - 1020-zz, add §1020-jj, Pub Auth L
Requires combination gas and electric corporations, the New York Power Authority, and the Long Island Power Authority to provide an annual transparency statement to customers detailing certain charges on a gross basis which are included in each customer's delivery service portion of their utility bill.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6335--C
Cal. No. 96
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 11, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. GRIFFO, PHILLIPS -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Tele-
communications -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to
first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and
ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
-- recommitted to the Committee on Energy and Telecommunications in
accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first
report, amended on first report, ordered to a second report and
ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of second report
AN ACT to amend the public service law and the public authorities law,
in relation to requiring combination gas and electric corporations,
the New York Power Authority and the Long Island Power Authority to
provide an annual transparency statement to customers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 44 of the public service law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
3 6. Commencing on January first, two thousand twenty-one, every combi-
4 nation gas and electric corporation on an annual basis, shall provide
5 each customer with an annual transparency statement which shall detail
6 the following charges on a gross basis which are included in each
7 customer's delivery service portion of their utility bill, including but
8 not limited to: (i) property taxes; (ii) sales and compensating use
9 taxes; (iii) costs and expenses of the commission and department pursu-
10 ant to section eighteen-a of this chapter; (iv) gross receipts taxes;
11 (v) franchise and income taxes; (vi) metropolitan transportation author-
12 ity payroll taxes; and (vii) fees, charges and costs imposed by the
13 public service commission which are embedded in the customer bill. Such
14 fees, charges and costs shall include costs from the implementation of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11743-06-8
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1 reforming energy vision, energy efficiency, distributed energy resources
2 and zero emission credits. Such transparency statement shall provide a
3 percentage of the foregoing charges as applied to the average bill of a
4 customer of such utility.
5 § 2. Section 1005 of the public authorities law is amended by adding a
6 new subdivision 26 to read as follows:
7 26. Commencing on January first, two thousand twenty-one, the authori-
8 ty, on an annual basis, shall provide each customer with an annual tran-
9 sparency statement which shall detail the following charges on a gross
10 basis which are included in each customer's delivery service portion of
11 their utility bill, including but not limited to: (i) property taxes;
12 (ii) sales and compensating use taxes; (iii) costs and expenses of the
13 authority and the public service commission pursuant to section eigh-
14 teen-a of the public service law; (iv) gross receipts taxes; (v) fran-
15 chise and income taxes; (vi) metropolitan transportation authority
16 payroll taxes; and (vii) fees, charges and costs imposed by the authori-
17 ty which are embedded in the customer bill. Such fees, charges and costs
18 shall include costs from the implementation of reforming energy vision,
19 energy efficiency, distributed energy resources and zero emission cred-
20 its. Such transparency statement shall provide a percentage of the fore-
21 going charges as applied to the average bill of a customer of such util-
22 ity.
23 § 3. Sections 1020-jj, 1020-kk, and 1020-ll of the public authorities
24 law, as renumbered by chapter 415 of the laws of 2017, are renumbered
25 sections 1020-xx, 1020-yy, and 1020-zz and a new section 1020-jj is
26 added to read as follows:
27 § 1020-jj. Customer bills. Commencing on January first, two thousand
28 twenty-one, the authority, on an annual basis, shall provide each
29 customer with an annual transparency statement which shall detail the
30 following charges on a gross basis which are included in each customer's
31 delivery service portion of their utility bill, including but not limit-
32 ed to: (i) property taxes; (ii) sales and compensating use taxes; (iii)
33 costs and expenses of the authority and the public service commission
34 pursuant to section eighteen-a of the public service law; (iv) gross
35 receipts taxes; (v) franchise and income taxes; (vi) metropolitan trans-
36 portation authority payroll taxes; and (vii) fees, charges and costs
37 imposed by the authority which are embedded in the customer bill. Such
38 fees, charges and costs shall include costs from the implementation of
39 reforming energy vision, energy efficiency, distributed energy resources
40 and zero emission credits. Such transparency statement shall provide a
41 percentage of the foregoing charges as applied to the average bill of a
42 customer of such utility.
43 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
