Bill Text: NY A08248 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires public utility authorities to obtain legislative approval before raising rates or fees, or imposing new rates or fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-11 - held for consideration in energy [A08248 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08248-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8248

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 25, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. GANDOLFO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Energy

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public authorities law, in relation to requiring
          public utility authorities to obtain legislative approval before rais-
          ing rates or fees

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

     1    Section  1.    The  public  authorities law is amended by adding a new
     2  section 2858 to read as follows:
     3    § 2858. Rates and fees; public utility authorities.  No public utility
     4  authority operating under article five of this chapter shall  raise  any
     5  rates or fees, or impose any new rates or fees, for the use of utilities
     6  provided  by  such  public  utility  authority,  without first obtaining
     7  approval from the state legislature.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11869-01-1
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