Bill Text: NY S05277 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Creates the New York Farm-to-Urban Consumer Solar Access Act of 2016 to permit a system implementing shared solar power benefits.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-15 - referred to energy [S05277 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S05277-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5277--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 12, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sens. FUNKE, AMEDORE, CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Energy
          and  Telecommunications  -- recommitted to the Committee on Energy and
          Telecommunications in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- commit-
          tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and  recom-
          mitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the public service law, in relation to the creation of
          the New York Farm-to-Urban Consumer Solar Access Act of 2016
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Legislative  intent  and purpose. It is the intent of the
     2  Legislature to extend access to the savings and benefits of solar  power
     3  to  electricity consumers that reside in multifamily buildings by allow-
     4  ing these consumers to share in the savings and benefits of solar  power
     5  systems  located  on  agricultural  land  or  other qualified properties
     6  including landfills and brownfields. By extending the  state's  abundant
     7  solar  energy  resources  to more consumers, it is the further intent of
     8  the Legislature to reduce the costs for electricity incurred by  consum-
     9  ers  residing  in  multifamily  buildings, to increase the benefits that
    10  accrue to electricity consumers that reside  in  multifamily  properties
    11  from  the payment of the system benefit charge, to create new sources of
    12  income for owners of agricultural land and other qualifying  properties,
    13  and  to create jobs and increase economic growth for the citizens of the
    14  State.
    15    § 2. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New
    16  York Farm-to-Urban Consumer Solar Access Act of 2016".
    17    § 3. The public service law is amended by adding a new article  12  to
    18  read as follows:
    19                                 ARTICLE 12
    20                             SHARED SOLAR POWER
    21  Section 240. Definitions.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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