Bill Text: NY A01723 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Reduces the total amount that can be charged from one percent to one-third of one percent.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 18-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-13 - held for consideration in corporations, authorities and commissions [A01723 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01723-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1723
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 16, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  HAWLEY,  KOLB,  MALLIOTAKIS, GIGLIO, CROUCH,
          FRIEND, BARCLAY, PALMESANO, STEC, BYRNE, DiPIETRO, BRABENEC --  Multi-
          Sponsored  by -- M.  of A. McDONOUGH, THIELE -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
        AN ACT to amend the public service law,  in  relation  to  reducing  the
          amount a utility can be assessed for costs and expenses of the depart-
          ment of public service and the public service commission
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (g) of subdivision  2  of  section  18-a  of  the
     2  public  service law, as amended by section 2 of part A of chapter 173 of
     3  the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (g) The total amount which may be charged to any public utility compa-
     5  ny and the Long Island power authority under authority of this  subdivi-
     6  sion  for  any  state  fiscal year shall not exceed one-third of one per
     7  centum of such public utility company's or authority's  gross  operating
     8  revenues  derived from intrastate utility operations in the last preced-
     9  ing calendar year, or other twelve month period  as  determined  by  the
    10  chairman;  provided,  however,  that  no  corporation  or person that is
    11  subject to the jurisdiction of the commission only with respect to safe-
    12  ty, or the power authority of the state of New York, shall be subject to
    13  the general assessment provided for under this subdivision.
    14    Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section, for
    15  telephone corporations as defined in subdivision  seventeen  of  section
    16  two  of  this article, the total amount which may be charged such corpo-
    17  rations for department expenses under the authority of  subdivision  one
    18  of  this section for any state fiscal year shall not exceed one-third of
    19  one percentum of such corporation's gross operating  revenue,  over  and
    20  above  five  hundred  thousand  dollars, derived from intrastate utility
    21  operations in the last preceding calendar year, or  other  twelve  month
    22  period as determined by the chairman.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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