Bill Text: NY S08892 | 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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-11 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08892 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08892-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8892

                    IN SENATE

                                     August 11, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        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