Bill Text: NY A00461 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits charges for any costs related to the zero emissions credit requirement from being charged to ratepayers who purchase all of their electricity from renewable energy resources.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to energy [A00461 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00461-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           461
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PAULIN, DINOWITZ, FAHY -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Energy
        AN ACT to prohibit certain costs from being charged  to  ratepayers  who
          purchase all of their electricity from renewable energy resources
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any other law, rule, regulation, or  order,
     2  no  ratepayer  that  purchases  all  of their electricity from renewable
     3  energy resources shall be charged for any  costs  related  to  the  zero
     4  emissions  credit requirement established by the New York public service
     5  commission. As used in this act, "renewable energy resources" shall have
     6  the same meaning as established by the commission in  the  Clean  Energy
     7  Standard.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03795-01-9