Bill Text: NY A00079 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the results of any outage management system stress test conducted in the state by a utility company to be posted online and such results to be sent to the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and the chairs of the senate and assembly standing committees on energy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-01-08 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [A00079 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00079-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           79

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN  ACT  to amend the public service law and the public authorities law,
          in relation to requiring the results of any outage  management  system
          stress  test  conducted in the state by a utility company to be posted
          online

          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  54 to read as follows:
     3    § 54. Utility  outage  management  system  stress  testing.  1.    For
     4  purposes  of  this section, "outage management system stress test" shall
     5  mean a test conducted by a utility to  determine  the  ability  of  such
     6  utility  to  handle and respond to large scale weather events or natural
     7  disasters that are likely to result in the loss of service to customers.
     8    2. (a) The department shall post the results of any outage  management
     9  system  stress  test  conducted  in  the state by a utility corporation,
    10  water municipality or local publicly owned electric or  gas  corporation
    11  on the department's website as soon as such results become available.
    12    (b) The commissioner shall also submit a report of such results to the
    13  temporary  president  of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and the
    14  chairs of the senate and assembly standing committees on energy.
    15    § 2. Title 1-A of article 5 of the public authorities law, as added by
    16  chapter 517 of the laws of 1986, is amended  by  adding  a  new  section
    17  1020-nn to read as follows:
    18    §  1020-nn.   Outage management system stress testing. 1. For purposes
    19  of this section, "outage management system stress  test"  shall  mean  a
    20  test  conducted  by the authority or a service provider to determine the
    21  ability of the authority or such service provider to handle and  respond

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01775-01-3
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     1  to  large  scale  weather events or natural disasters that are likely to
     2  result in the loss of service to customers.
     3    2.  (a)  The authority shall post the results of any outage management
     4  system stress test conducted by the authority or a service  provider  on
     5  the authority's website as soon as such results become available.
     6    (b) The board shall also submit a report of such results to the tempo-
     7  rary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and the chairs
     8  of the senate and assembly standing committees on energy.
     9    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.