Bill Text: NY A07183 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires water works corporations and municipal water systems to annually calculate and submit to the public service commission their water cost index.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2018-12-21 - tabled [A07183 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A07183-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7183--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 12, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- recommitted to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring water works corporations and municipal water systems to annually calculate and submit to the public service commission their water cost index The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 2 89-k to read as follows: 3 § 89-k. Water cost index. 1. For the purposes of this section, "water 4 cost index" means the annual cost of water for an average single family 5 household served by a water works corporation or municipal water system. 6 The water cost index shall be calculated using uniform factors developed 7 by the commission including, but not limited to, usage, fees, applicable 8 taxes, meter size and seasonal rate structures. 9 2. Within six months of the effective date of this section, the 10 commission shall develop a formula for the calculation of a water cost 11 index. Such formula shall include the uniform factors to be used by any 12 water works corporation or municipal water system in calculating its 13 water cost index. The commission shall publish such formula on its 14 website, and shall provide such formula to each water works corporation 15 and municipal water system serving one thousand customers or more. The 16 commission may, from time to time, update such formula. 17 3. Annually, each water works corporation and municipal water system 18 serving one thousand customers or more shall calculate and submit to the 19 commission its water cost index. The water cost index shall be submitted 20 to the commission within sixty days succeeding the close of its fiscal EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10701-02-8A. 7183--A 2 1 year. Municipal water systems may submit its water cost index as part of 2 their annual report as provided for in section eighty-nine-l of this 3 article. 4 4. Annually, by December thirty-first, the commission shall publish a 5 report on the water cost index of each applicable water works corpo- 6 ration and municipal water system of the preceding calendar year. The 7 report shall provide a statistical analysis of the data and a comparison 8 of water cost indexes throughout the state, including, but not limited 9 to, comparisons based on regions, type of provider, and size. 10 5. A copy of the report shall be posted on the commission's website 11 and the commission shall notify the temporary president of the senate, 12 the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate energy and telecom- 13 munications committee, and the chair of the assembly corporations, 14 authorities and commissions committee of its posting and any updates 15 made thereto. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.