Bill Text: NY A01937 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 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. LBD00259-03-6