Bill Text: NY A00367 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to directing the public service commission to require that gas and electric corporations establish a rate classification for volunteer emergency response organizations which shall not be greater than the rate for veterans' organizations.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-01 - print number 367a [A00367 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00367-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         367--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. RYAN, WOERNER -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Energy -- recommitted  to  the  Committee  on  Energy  in
          accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN  ACT  to  amend the public service law, in relation to a rate classi-
          fication for volunteer emergency response organizations
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Legislative  findings  and  intent.  Volunteer  emergency
     2  response organizations provide a public benefit to the state of New York
     3  and lessen the burdens of government. Further, members of these not-for-
     4  profit organizations risk their lives to ensure the safety,  health  and
     5  general  welfare  of  our  citizens.  In the past, the state of New York
     6  recognized the value of similar  organizations  and  the  sacrifices  of
     7  their  members  when it established a reduced utility rate for veterans'
     8  organizations. Therefore, the legislature hereby finds and declares that
     9  volunteer emergency response organizations and  veterans'  organizations
    10  are  similarly  situated in their structures, practices and actions, and
    11  further finds and declares that a reduced utility rate is justified  for
    12  volunteer  emergency response organizations to help ensure their contin-
    13  ued operation.
    14    § 2. Subdivision 14 of section  66  of  the  public  service  law,  as
    15  amended  by  chapter  696  of  the  laws  of 1936, is amended to read as
    16  follows:
    17    14. (a) The commission shall have power to  require  each  gas  corpo-
    18  ration  and electric corporation to establish classifications of service
    19  based upon the quantity used, the time when used, the purpose for  which
    20  used,  the  duration of use and upon any other reasonable consideration,
    21  and to establish in connection therewith just and  reasonable  graduated
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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