Bill Text: NY S08577 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8577

Introduced

Bill Title: Makes all costs and expenses of the department of public service and public service commission subject to appropriation by the legislature on the certification of the chairman of the department and upon the audit and warrant of the comptroller.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-15 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S08577 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08577-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8577

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 15, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  ASHBY  -- 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 making all costs
          and expenses of the department of public service  and  public  service
          commission  subject to appropriation by the legislature; and to repeal
          certain provisions of section 18-a  of  the  public  service  law,  in
          relation thereto

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The section heading and subdivision 1 of  section  18-a  of
     2  the public service law, as amended by section 2 of part NN of chapter 59
     3  of the laws of 2009, are amended to read as follows:
     4    Costs  and  expenses of the commission and department [and the assess-
     5  ment of such costs and expenses. 1].  All  costs  and  expenses  of  the
     6  department and commission shall be paid pursuant to appropriation by the
     7  legislature  on  the certification of the chairman of the department and
     8  upon the audit and warrant of the comptroller. [The state treasury shall
     9  be reimbursed therefore by payments to be made thereto from  all  moneys
    10  collected pursuant to this chapter. The total of such costs and expenses
    11  shall  be  borne  by  the  public  utility  companies (including for the
    12  purposes of this section municipalities  other  than  municipalities  as
    13  defined in section eighty-nine-l of this chapter), corporations (includ-
    14  ing  the  power authority of the state of New York), and persons subject
    15  to the commission's regulation, to be assessed in the manner provided in
    16  subdivisions two, three and four of this section and section two hundred
    17  seventeen of this chapter.]
    18    § 2. Subdivisions 1-a, 2, 3, 4, 4-a, 4-b and 5 of section 18-a of  the
    19  public service law are REPEALED.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect January 1, 2025.


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