Bill Text: NY S08967 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes increased penalties for combination gas and electric corporations that violate provisions of the public service law designed to protect the overall reliability and continuity of electric service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-09-04 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08967 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08967-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8967

                    IN SENATE

                                    September 4, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- 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 increasing penal-
          ties for certain violations committed by combination gas and  electric
          corporations

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision  5  of  section  25-a  of  the
     2  public service law, as added by section 2 of part X of chapter 57 of the
     3  laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  five hundred thousand dollars or [four one-hundredths] two-tenths
     5  of one percent of the annual intrastate gross operating revenue  of  the
     6  corporation,  not  including  taxes  paid  to  and revenues collected on
     7  behalf of government entities,  whichever  is  greater,  constituting  a
     8  civil penalty for each separate and distinct offense; provided, however,
     9  that  for  purposes of this paragraph each day of a continuing violation
    10  shall not be deemed a separate and distinct offense. The total period of
    11  a continuing violation, as well as every  distinct  violation  shall  be
    12  similarly  treated  as  a  separate and distinct offense for purposes of
    13  this paragraph; or
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17183-02-0