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

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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]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          367
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. RYAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Energy
       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    S  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
   22  rates and charges; and it shall have power,  either  upon  complaint  or
   23  upon  its  own  motion, to require such changes in such classifications,
   24  rates and charges as it shall  determine  to  be  just  and  reasonable.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00462-01-5
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    1  Neither  the  scheduled  rates  nor  the  minimum charge for residential
    2  customers shall, after July first,  nineteen  hundred  thirty-seven,  be
    3  based  in any manner on the number of outlets, number of rooms, cubic or
    4  square foot area or other such standards.
    5    (B)  IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE COMMIS-
    6  SION SHALL REQUIRE EACH GAS  CORPORATION  AND  ELECTRIC  CORPORATION  TO
    7  ESTABLISH  BY  JANUARY 1, 2017 A CLASSIFICATION OF SERVICE FOR VOLUNTEER
    8  EMERGENCY RESPONSE ORGANIZATIONS IN WHICH THE RATE FOR ANY GAS OR  ELEC-
    9  TRIC  SERVICE  UTILIZED  EXCLUSIVELY  IN  CONNECTION WITH SUCH VOLUNTEER
   10  EMERGENCY RESPONSE ORGANIZATION  SHALL  BE  NO  GREATER  THAN  THE  RATE
   11  CHARGED  TO  VETERANS'  ORGANIZATIONS PURSUANT TO SECTION SEVENTY-SIX OF
   12  THIS ARTICLE THAT ARE LOCATED WITHIN THE SAME VILLAGE, TOWN  OR  MUNICI-
   13  PALITY.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE TERM "VOLUNTEER EMER-
   14  GENCY RESPONSE ORGANIZATION" SHALL MEAN A VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY  AND/OR
   15  A  VOLUNTARY  AMBULANCE SERVICE AS SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED IN SECTION ONE
   16  HUNDRED OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW.
   17    S 3. Subdivision 28 of section 66 of the public service law, as  added
   18  by chapter 82 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
   19    28.  (A)  No revenues foregone by an electric corporation, as a result
   20  of subjecting certain veterans'  organizations  with  rates  or  charges
   21  applicable to domestic consumers pursuant to section seventy-six of this
   22  article, shall be recovered from the customers of such corporation.
   23    (B)  NO  REVENUES  FOREGONE BY A GAS CORPORATION OR AN ELECTRIC CORPO-
   24  RATION, AS A RESULT OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CLASSIFICATION OF  SERVICE
   25  FOR  VOLUNTEER  EMERGENCY RESPONSE ORGANIZATIONS PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION
   26  FOURTEEN OF THIS SECTION, SHALL BE RECOVERED FROM THE CUSTOMERS OF  SUCH
   27  CORPORATION.
   28    S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.