Bill Text: NY A11019 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires electric corporations to prioritize restoring services to police departments, fire departments, and ambulance services, when such services are interrupted; prohibits such corporations from charging rate payers a higher rate for extra costs incurred due to prioritizing such services.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-09-09 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A11019 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A11019-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11019

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    September 9, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Sayegh) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on  Corporations,  Authorities
          and Commissions

        AN  ACT  to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring elec-
          tric corporations to prioritize restoring services to  police  depart-
          ments,   fire  departments,  and  ambulance  services,  when  electric
          services are interrupted

          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  73 to read as follows:
     3    § 73. Prioritization of emergency services. 1.  If an electric  corpo-
     4  ration  is  not  able  to  restore electric power services to any police
     5  department, fire department, or  ambulance  service  within  twenty-four
     6  hours  of the loss or interruption of such electric power services, such
     7  electric corporation shall provide such police department, fire  depart-
     8  ment, and/or ambulance service with an alternate generated power source.
     9    2.  An  electric  corporation  shall  not increase charges to any rate
    10  payers to cover any extra costs incurred by such electric corporation as
    11  a result of compliance with subdivision one of this section.
    12    3. For the  purposes  of  this  section,  "alternate  generated  power
    13  source" shall mean electric generating equipment that is of the capacity
    14  that  is  capable  of providing adequate electricity to operate all life
    15  safety systems and the basic operations of  a  police  department,  fire
    16  department, or ambulance service.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17097-02-0