Bill Text: NY A07183 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
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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-Introduced.html
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-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7183 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 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" shall mean a measurement developed by the commission that 5 equals the annual cost of water based on a uniform water consumption 6 factor for a single family household. The index shall be based on 7 uniform factors, including but not limited to, usage, fees, taxes (if 8 applicable), meter size and seasonal rate structure. 9 2. Each water works corporation and municipal water system shall annu- 10 ally calculate and submit to the public service commission their water 11 cost index. The water cost index shall be submitted to the commission 12 within sixty days succeeding the close of their fiscal year. Municipal 13 water systems may submit their water cost index as part of their annual 14 report as provided for in section eighty-nine-l of this article. 15 3. Annually, by December thirty-first, the commission shall publish a 16 report on the water cost index of each water system of the preceding 17 calendar year. The report shall provide a statistical analysis of the 18 data and a comparison of water cost indexes throughout the state, 19 including but not limited to, comparisons based on region, type of 20 provider, and size. 21 4. A copy of the report must be furnished to the temporary president 22 of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chairperson of the 23 senate standing committee on energy and telecommunications, and the 24 chairperson of the assembly standing committee on corporations, authori- 25 ties and commissions. In addition, the report shall be posted on the 26 commission's website. 27 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10701-01-7