Bill Text: NY A00797 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the public service commission to develop a formula for the calculation of a residential water cost index; requires each water works corporation and municipal water system serving one thousand customers or more to calculate and submit to the public service commission its residential water cost index; requires the public service commission to publish a report on the residential water cost index of each applicable water works corporation and municipal water system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-04-04 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [A00797 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00797-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           797

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in  relation  to  requiring  the
          public  service commission to develop a formula for the calculation of
          a residential water cost index; requiring each water-works corporation
          and municipal water system serving one thousand customers or  more  to
          calculate  and submit to the public service commission its residential
          water cost index; and  requiring  the  public  service  commission  to
          publish  a report on the residential water cost index of each applica-
          ble water-works corporation and municipal water system

          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  89-k to read as follows:
     3    § 89-k. Residential water cost index. 1.  For  the  purposes  of  this
     4  section,  "residential  water cost index" means the annual cost of water
     5  for an average single family household served by  a  water-works  corpo-
     6  ration  or  municipal water system. The water cost index shall be calcu-
     7  lated using uniform factors developed by the commission  including,  but
     8  not  limited  to, usage, fees, applicable taxes, meter size and seasonal
     9  rate structures.
    10    2. Within six months of  the  effective  date  of  this  section,  the
    11  commission  shall develop a formula for the calculation of a residential
    12  water cost index. Such formula shall include the uniform factors  to  be
    13  used  by any water-works corporation or municipal water system in calcu-
    14  lating its water cost index. The commission shall publish  such  formula
    15  on  its  website,  and  shall  provide  such formula to each water-works
    16  corporation and municipal water system serving one thousand customers or
    17  more. The commission may, from time to time, update such formula.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04373-01-1
        A. 797                              2

     1    3. Annually, each water-works corporation and municipal  water  system
     2  serving one thousand customers or more shall calculate and submit to the
     3  commission  its residential water cost index. The water cost index shall
     4  be submitted to the commission within sixty days succeeding the close of
     5  its fiscal year. Municipal water systems may submit its water cost index
     6  as  part of their annual report as provided for in section eighty-nine-l
     7  of this article.
     8    4. Annually, by December thirty-first, the commission shall publish  a
     9  report  on  the  residential  water cost index of each applicable water-
    10  works corporation and municipal water system of the  preceding  calendar
    11  year.  The report shall provide a statistical analysis of the data and a
    12  comparison of residential  water  cost  indexes  throughout  the  state,
    13  including,  but  not  limited  to, comparisons based on regions, type of
    14  provider, and size.
    15    5. A copy of the report shall be posted on  the  commission's  website
    16  and  the  commission shall notify the temporary president of the senate,
    17  the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate energy and telecom-
    18  munications committee, and  the  chair  of  the  assembly  corporations,
    19  authorities  and  commissions  committee  of its posting and any updates
    20  made thereto.
    21    § 2. Section 89-l of the public service law is amended by adding a new
    22  subdivision 7 to read as follows:
    23    7. Each municipal water system serving one thousand customers or  more
    24  shall  calculate and submit a residential water cost index to the public
    25  service commission pursuant to section eighty-nine-k of this article.
    26    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.