Bill Text: NY A08288 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
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: (Vetoed) 2018-12-28 - tabled [A08288 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A08288-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8288--B 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY June 6, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- commit- tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom- mitted to said committee 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-one, 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. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11743-07-8A. 8288--B 2 1 § 2. Section 1005 of the public authorities law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 26 to read as follows: 3 26. Commencing on January first, two thousand twenty-one, the authori- 4 ty, on an annual basis, shall provide each customer with an annual tran- 5 sparency statement which shall detail the following charges on a gross 6 basis which are included in each customer's delivery service portion of 7 their utility bill, including but not limited to: (i) property taxes; 8 (ii) sales and compensating use taxes; (iii) costs and expenses of the 9 authority and the public service commission pursuant to section eigh- 10 teen-a of the public service law; (iv) gross receipts taxes; (v) fran- 11 chise and income taxes; (vi) metropolitan transportation authority 12 payroll taxes; and (vii) fees, charges and costs imposed by the authori- 13 ty which are embedded in the customer bill. Such fees, charges and costs 14 shall include costs from the implementation of reforming energy vision, 15 energy efficiency, distributed energy resources and zero emission cred- 16 its. Such transparency statement shall provide a percentage of the fore- 17 going charges as applied to the average bill of a customer of such util- 18 ity. 19 § 3. Sections 1020-jj, 1020-kk, and 1020-ll of the public authorities 20 law, as renumbered by chapter 415 of the laws of 2017, are renumbered 21 sections 1020-xx, 1020-yy, and 1020-zz and a new section 1020-jj is 22 added to read as follows: 23 § 1020-jj. Customer bills. Commencing on January first, two thousand 24 twenty-one, the authority, on an annual basis, shall provide each 25 customer with an annual transparency statement which shall detail the 26 following charges on a gross basis which are included in each customer's 27 delivery service portion of their utility bill, including but not limit- 28 ed to: (i) property taxes; (ii) sales and compensating use taxes; (iii) 29 costs and expenses of the authority and the public service commission 30 pursuant to section eighteen-a of the public service law; (iv) gross 31 receipts taxes; (v) franchise and income taxes; (vi) metropolitan trans- 32 portation authority payroll taxes; and (vii) fees, charges and costs 33 imposed by the authority which are embedded in the customer bill. Such 34 fees, charges and costs shall include costs from the implementation of 35 reforming energy vision, energy efficiency, distributed energy resources 36 and zero emission credits. Such transparency statement shall provide a 37 percentage of the foregoing charges as applied to the average bill of a 38 customer of such utility. 39 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
