Bill Text: NY S07886 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the Leakage Prevention Clean Energy Act authorizing electric retail load serving entities to offer to business customers generation supply that is exempt from the electric retail load serving entities obligation of the clean energy standard mandate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S07886 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07886-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7886
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 20, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- 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 establishment of
          a carbon leakage prevention program
          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 "Leakage
     2  Prevention Clean Energy Act".
     3    § 2. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 18-b to
     4  read as follows:
     5    § 18-b. Exclusion from the clean energy standard.  Notwithstanding any
     6  law, rule, regulation or order to the  contrary,  the  commission  shall
     7  authorize all electric retail load serving entities to offer to business
     8  customers generation supply that is exempt from the electric retail load
     9  serving  entities  obligation  of  the clean energy standard mandate and
    10  each electric retail load serving entity shall have the electric  retail
    11  load  serving  entities obligation reduced by the business customer load
    12  exempt from the clean energy standard mandate.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15480-02-6