Establishes a home heating oil rebate program for residential home heating oil customers to receive a rebate of one dollar per gallon of grade number two heating oil purchased from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022, of a limit up to five hundred gallons.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8877
IN SENATE
April 26, 2022
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Introduced by Sen. WEIK -- 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 establishing
a home heating oil rebate program; and providing for the repeal of
such provisions upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new
2 section 1885 to read as follows:
3 § 1885. Home heating oil rebate program. 1. The authority is hereby
4 authorized to establish and administer a home heating oil rebate
5 program. The authority shall be responsible for gathering all necessary
6 residential customer purchase data from all registered home heating oil
7 dealers in the state.
8 2. The authority shall have the responsibility of distributing rebate
9 checks to residential home heating oil customers. Such rebate shall be
10 in the amount of one dollar per gallon, up to a limit of five hundred
11 gallons, of number two heating oil purchased between the dates of July
12 first, two thousand twenty-one and June thirtieth, two thousand twenty-
13 two.
14 3. The authority shall promulgate rules and regulations for the admin-
15 istration of a home heating oil rebate program established pursuant to
16 this section, including but not limited to eligibility criteria, appli-
17 cation procedures, and documentation and compliance requirements for the
18 program.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire December
20 31, 2023 when upon such date the provisions of this act shall be deemed
21 repealed.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15451-01-2
