Bill Text: NY S08905 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires gas corporations and electric corporations in this state to file quarterly reports with the legislature regarding infrastructure upgrades.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-12 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08905 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08905-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8905

                    IN SENATE

                                     August 12, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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  gas
          corporations and electric corporations in this state to file quarterly
          reports with the legislature regarding infrastructure upgrades

          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. Infrastructure upgrades; quarterly reports to legislature. 1. On
     4  or  before  October  first,  two  thousand twenty and on or before every
     5  January first, April first, July first  and  October  first  thereafter,
     6  every  gas corporation and electric corporation in this state shall file
     7  a report with the legislature setting forth:
     8    (a) the scope and nature of all upgrades to the infrastructure of such
     9  corporation completed during the previous quarterly period;
    10    (b) the status of any ongoing upgrades to the infrastructure  of  such
    11  corporation and the scope and nature of such upgrade; and
    12    (c)  the  status  regarding the planning and development of any future
    13  upgrades to the infrastructure of such corporation  and  the  scope  and
    14  nature of such upgrade.
    15    2.  Such report shall set forth in detail infrastructure upgrades with
    16  respect  to  infrastructure  hardening,  storm  resilience  and  climate
    17  change.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17103-01-0