Bill Text: NY A07183 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires water works corporations and municipal water systems to annually calculate and submit to the public service commission their water cost index.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2018-12-21 - tabled [A07183 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07183-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7183--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 12, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions --  recommitted
          to  the  Committee  on  Corporations,  Authorities  and Commissions 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  requiring  water
          works  corporations  and municipal water systems to annually calculate
          and submit to the public service commission their water cost index
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The public service law is amended by adding a new section
     2  89-k to read as follows:
     3    § 89-k. Water cost index. 1. For the purposes of this section,  "water
     4  cost  index" means the annual cost of water for an average single family
     5  household served by a water works corporation or municipal water system.
     6  The water cost index shall be calculated using uniform factors developed
     7  by the commission including, but not limited to, usage, fees, applicable
     8  taxes, meter size and seasonal rate structures.
     9    2. Within six months of  the  effective  date  of  this  section,  the
    10  commission  shall  develop a formula for the calculation of a water cost
    11  index. Such formula shall include the uniform factors to be used by  any
    12  water  works  corporation  or  municipal water system in calculating its
    13  water cost index. The commission  shall  publish  such  formula  on  its
    14  website,  and shall provide such formula to each water works corporation
    15  and municipal water system serving one thousand customers or  more.  The
    16  commission may, from time to time, update such formula.
    17    3.  Annually,  each water works corporation and municipal water system
    18  serving one thousand customers or more shall calculate and submit to the
    19  commission its water cost index. The water cost index shall be submitted
    20  to the commission within sixty days succeeding the close of  its  fiscal
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10701-02-8

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     1  year. Municipal water systems may submit its water cost index as part of
     2  their  annual  report  as  provided for in section eighty-nine-l of this
     3  article.
     4    4.  Annually, by December thirty-first, the commission shall publish a
     5  report on the water cost index of each  applicable  water  works  corpo-
     6  ration  and  municipal  water system of the preceding calendar year. The
     7  report shall provide a statistical analysis of the data and a comparison
     8  of water cost indexes throughout the state, including, but  not  limited
     9  to, comparisons based on regions, type of provider, and size.
    10    5.  A  copy  of the report shall be posted on the commission's website
    11  and the commission shall notify the temporary president of  the  senate,
    12  the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate energy and telecom-
    13  munications  committee,  and  the  chair  of  the assembly corporations,
    14  authorities and commissions committee of its  posting  and  any  updates
    15  made thereto.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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