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]

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                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
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