Bill Text: NY A05985 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 5985 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Establishes a moratorium on an order of the public service commission enacting a zero-emission credit requirement in relation to certain upstate nuclear generating facilities.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 34-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to energy [A05985 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05985-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5985--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 21, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  THIELE,  GLICK,  LIFTON,  ZEBROWSKI,  ORTIZ,
          PEOPLES-STOKES, FAHY, GUNTHER, MOSLEY, ENGLEBRIGHT, BRAUNSTEIN, SIMON,
          JEAN-PIERRE, DINOWITZ, CAHILL, GALEF,  RODRIGUEZ,  D'URSO,  SEPULVEDA,
          HOOPER,  ROSENTHAL, STECK, RAIA, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
          of A. COOK, WEINSTEIN -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on
          Energy  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to establish a moratorium on that portion of  the  order  of  the
          state  of New York public service commission, issued August 1, 2016 in
          cases 15-E-0302 and 16-E-0270 enacting a zero-emission credit require-
          ment in relation to certain upstate nuclear generating facilities; and
          providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. There is hereby established a moratorium on that portion of
     2  the  order  of  the  state of New York public service commission, issued
     3  August 1, 2016 in cases 15-E-0302 and 16-E-0270 enacting a zero-emission
     4  credit requirement in relation to  certain  upstate  nuclear  generating
     5  facilities.  Such  upstate  nuclear  generating  facilities shall be the
     6  Fitzpatrick, Ginna and Nine Mile  Point  nuclear  generating  facilities
     7  referred  to  in  such  order. Specifically, paragraphs ten, eleven, and
     8  twelve of said order shall be subject to the moratorium  established  by
     9  this act.
    10    §  2.  Severability.  If  any provision of this act or the application
    11  thereof shall for any reason be  adjudged  by  any  court  of  competent
    12  jurisdiction  to  be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or
    13  invalidate the remainder of this act, but shall be confined in its oper-
    14  ation to the provision thereof directly involved in the  controversy  in
    15  which such judgment shall have been rendered.
    16    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
    17  have been in full force and effect on and after August 1, 2016 and shall
    18  expire July 1, 2017 when upon such date the provisions of this act shall
    19  be deemed repealed.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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