Bill Text: NY A07263 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Enacts the "ratepayer disclosure and transparency act" which requires an annual report that includes the estimated or actual ratepayer costs and benefits of any mandated state energy program to the governor and legislature including any New York climate leadership and community protection act compliance costs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 17-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-28 - print number 7263a [A07263 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A07263-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7263--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 16, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PALMESANO, BRABENEC, DeSTEFANO, FRIEND, HAWLEY, MANKTELOW, MILLER, MORINELLO, NORRIS, REILLY, TAGUE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, BYRNES, DiPIETRO, J. M. GIGLIO, RA, WALSH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Energy -- recommitted to the Committee on Energy in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to enacting the "ratepayer disclosure and transparency act" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "ratepayer 2 disclosure and transparency act". 3 § 2. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 28 to 4 read as follows: 5 § 28. Annual disclosure and transparency report. 1. The commission in 6 consultation with the New York state energy research and development 7 authority shall annually report the estimated or actual ratepayer costs 8 and benefits of any mandated state energy program, including programs 9 associated with the New York climate leadership and community protection 10 act, to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker 11 of the assembly, the senate minority leader and the assembly minority 12 leader by December thirty-first of each year. In addition, the commis- 13 sion shall require itemized lists of New York climate leadership and 14 community protection act compliance costs to be prominently displayed on 15 the utility billing documents of every resident of the state. 16 2. All information reported by the public service commission as 17 required under subdivision one of this section shall be made available 18 as a public record and posted to the public service commission website 19 simultaneously with submittal to the governor, the temporary president EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08486-03-4A. 7263--A 2 1 of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the senate minority leader 2 and the assembly minority leader. 3 3. The public service commission is hereby authorized and directed to 4 promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions 5 of this section. 6 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
