Bill Text: NY A05074 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires combination gas and electric corporations, the New York Power Authority, and the Long Island Power Authority to provide an annual transparency statement to customers detailing certain charges on a gross basis which are included in each customer's delivery service portion of their utility bill.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A05074 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05074-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5074

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 10, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PAULIN,  OTIS,  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN ACT to amend the public service law and the public  authorities  law,
          in  relation  to  requiring combination gas and electric corporations,
          the New York Power Authority and the Long Island  Power  Authority  to
          provide an annual transparency statement to customers

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 44 of the public service law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6. Commencing on January first, two thousand twenty-four, every combi-
     4  nation gas and electric corporation on an annual  basis,  shall  provide
     5  each  customer  with an annual transparency statement which shall detail
     6  the following charges on a  gross  basis  which  are  included  in  each
     7  customer's delivery service portion of their utility bill, including but
     8  not  limited  to:  (i)  property  taxes; (ii) sales and compensating use
     9  taxes; (iii) costs and expenses of the commission and department  pursu-
    10  ant  to  section  eighteen-a of this chapter; (iv) gross receipts taxes;
    11  (v) franchise and income taxes; (vi) metropolitan transportation author-
    12  ity payroll taxes; and (vii) fees, charges  and  costs  imposed  by  the
    13  public  service commission which are embedded in the customer bill. Such
    14  fees, charges and costs shall include costs from the  implementation  of
    15  reforming energy vision, energy efficiency, distributed energy resources
    16  and  zero  emission credits. Such transparency statement shall provide a
    17  percentage of the foregoing charges as applied to the average bill of  a
    18  customer of such utility.
    19    § 2. Section 1005 of the public authorities law is amended by adding a
    20  new subdivision 28 to read as follows:
    21    28. Commencing on January first, two thousand twenty-four, the author-
    22  ity,  on  an  annual  basis,  shall provide each customer with an annual
    23  transparency statement which shall detail the  following  charges  on  a

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01925-01-1
        A. 5074                             2

     1  gross  basis  which  are  included  in  each customer's delivery service
     2  portion of their utility bill, including but not limited to: (i) proper-
     3  ty taxes; (ii)  sales  and  compensating  use  taxes;  (iii)  costs  and
     4  expenses  of the authority and the public service commission pursuant to
     5  section eighteen-a of the public service law; (iv) gross receipts taxes;
     6  (v) franchise and income taxes; (vi) metropolitan transportation author-
     7  ity payroll taxes; and (vii) fees, charges  and  costs  imposed  by  the
     8  authority  which  are  embedded in the customer bill. Such fees, charges
     9  and costs shall include costs from the implementation of reforming ener-
    10  gy vision, energy efficiency,  distributed  energy  resources  and  zero
    11  emission credits. Such transparency statement shall provide a percentage
    12  of the foregoing charges as applied to the average bill of a customer of
    13  such utility.
    14    §  3.  Sections  1020-jj,  1020-kk,  1020-ll and 1020-ll of the public
    15  authorities law, sections 1020-jj, 1020-kk and 1020-ll as renumbered  by
    16  chapter  520  of  the laws of 2018, and section 1020-ll as renumbered by
    17  chapter 415 of the laws of 2017, are renumbered sections 1020-ww,  1020-
    18  xx,  1020-yy,  and 1020-zz and a new section 1020-jj is added to read as
    19  follows:
    20    § 1020-jj. Customer bills. Commencing on January first,  two  thousand
    21  twenty-four,  the  authority,  on  an  annual  basis, shall provide each
    22  customer with an annual transparency statement which  shall  detail  the
    23  following charges on a gross basis which are included in each customer's
    24  delivery service portion of their utility bill, including but not limit-
    25  ed  to: (i) property taxes; (ii) sales and compensating use taxes; (iii)
    26  costs and expenses of the authority and the  public  service  commission
    27  pursuant  to  section  eighteen-a  of the public service law; (iv) gross
    28  receipts taxes; (v) franchise and income taxes; (vi) metropolitan trans-
    29  portation authority payroll taxes; and (vii)  fees,  charges  and  costs
    30  imposed  by  the authority which are embedded in the customer bill. Such
    31  fees, charges and costs shall include costs from the  implementation  of
    32  reforming energy vision, energy efficiency, distributed energy resources
    33  and  zero  emission credits. Such transparency statement shall provide a
    34  percentage of the foregoing charges as applied to the average bill of  a
    35  customer of such utility.
    36    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.