Bill Text: NY A01937 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the "utility preparedness act"; requires the commission to issue an order establishing and requiring compliance with power restoration performance standards for certain electric companies to reduce the duration of outages and disruptions and to facilitate restoration of power after outages and disruptions.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-19 - print number 1937a [A01937 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A01937-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1937--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 13, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAYER,  BRAUNSTEIN, BUCHWALD, GALEF, LAVINE,
          ORTIZ, RAIA, ROZIC, SCHIMEL, TITONE, OTIS, ABINANTI -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A. COOK, GUNTHER, PERRY, RIVERA, SALADINO, THIELE --  read
          once  and  referred  to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and
          Commissions -- recommitted to the Committee on Corporations,  Authori-
          ties  and  Commissions  in  accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to utility prepared-
          ness for outages and disruptions of service
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited  as  the  "utility
     2  preparedness act of 2016".
     3    § 2. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 66-o to
     4  read as follows:
     5    §  66-o.  Utility preparedness for outages and disruptions of service.
     6  1.  Definitions. As used in this section:
     7    (a) "Electric transmission and distribution company" or  "transmission
     8  and  distribution  company"  or  "company" shall mean: an investor-owned
     9  utility having annual revenues in excess of two hundred million  dollars
    10  that transmits and distributes electricity within this state.
    11    (b)   "Vegetation  management"  shall  mean:  programs  and  practices
    12  designed to prevent electric system disruptions or power outages  caused
    13  by  the  physical  interference  or collapse of trees, tree branches and
    14  other vegetation on electric transmission and distribution lines.
    15    2. Transmission and distribution company  performance  benchmarks  and
    16  standards.    (a) No later than one year following the effective date of
    17  this section, the commission shall establish, and each transmission  and
    18  distribution  company  is  required  to  comply  with, power restoration
    19  performance benchmarks and standards to reduce the duration  of  outages
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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