Bill Text: NY S00800 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the public service commission to develop a formula for the calculation of a residential water cost index; requires each water-works corporation and municipal water system serving one thousand customers or more to calculate and submit to the public service commission its residential water cost index; requires the public service commission to publish a report on the residential water cost index of each applicable water-works corporation and municipal water system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S00800 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00800-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           800

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public service law, in relation to requiring the
          public service commission to develop a formula for the calculation  of
          a residential water cost index; requiring each water-works corporation
          and  municipal  water system serving one thousand customers or more to
          calculate and submit to the public service commission its  residential
          water  cost  index;  and  requiring  the  public service commission to
          publish a report on the residential water cost index of each  applica-
          ble water-works corporation and municipal water system

          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.  Residential  water  cost  index. 1. For the purposes of this
     4  section, "residential water cost index" means the annual cost  of  water
     5  for  an  average  single family household served by a water-works corpo-
     6  ration or municipal water system. The water cost index shall  be  calcu-
     7  lated  using  uniform factors developed by the commission including, but
     8  not limited to, usage, fees, applicable taxes, meter size  and  seasonal
     9  rate structures.
    10    2.  Within  six  months  of  the  effective  date of this section, the
    11  commission shall develop a formula for the calculation of a  residential
    12  water  cost  index. Such formula shall include the uniform factors to be
    13  used by any water-works corporation or municipal water system in  calcu-
    14  lating  its  water cost index. The commission shall publish such formula
    15  on its website, and shall  provide  such  formula  to  each  water-works
    16  corporation and municipal water system serving one thousand customers or
    17  more. The commission may, from time to time, update such formula.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03320-01-3
        S. 800                              2

     1    3.  Annually,  each water-works corporation and municipal water system
     2  serving one thousand customers or more shall calculate and submit to the
     3  commission its residential water cost index. The water cost index  shall
     4  be submitted to the commission within sixty days succeeding the close of
     5  its fiscal year. Municipal water systems may submit its water cost index
     6  as  part of their annual report as provided for in section eighty-nine-l
     7  of this article.
     8    4. Annually, by December thirty-first, the commission shall publish  a
     9  report  on  the  residential  water cost index of each applicable water-
    10  works corporation and municipal water system of the  preceding  calendar
    11  year.  The report shall provide a statistical analysis of the data and a
    12  comparison of residential  water  cost  indexes  throughout  the  state,
    13  including,  but  not  limited  to, comparisons based on regions, type of
    14  provider, and size.
    15    5. A copy of the report shall be posted on  the  commission's  website
    16  and  the  commission shall notify the temporary president of the senate,
    17  the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate energy and telecom-
    18  munications committee, and  the  chair  of  the  assembly  corporations,
    19  authorities  and  commissions  committee  of its posting and any updates
    20  made thereto.
    21    § 2. Section 89-l of the public service law is amended by adding a new
    22  subdivision 7 to read as follows:
    23    7. Each municipal water system serving one thousand customers or  more
    24  shall  calculate and submit a residential water cost index to the public
    25  service commission pursuant to section eighty-nine-k of this article.
    26    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.