Bill Text: NY A08531 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 8531

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to emergency response plans relating to the notification of location of downed wires from a municipal emergency official and to plans to prioritize the securing of downed wires over routine maintenance or other work unrelated to a response to an emergency event.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-02-07 - signed chap.38 [A08531 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08531-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8531

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 5, 2024
                                       ___________

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

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public service law, in relation to the emergency
          response plans relating to downed wires and prioritizing the  securing
          of such wires

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraphs (xi), (xii) and (xiii) of  paragraph  (a)  of
     2  subdivision  21  of  section  66 of the public service law, subparagraph
     3  (xi) as amended by a chapter of the laws of  2023  amending  the  public
     4  service  law relating to the emergency response plans relating to downed
     5  wires, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7230 and A. 237,  and
     6  subparagraphs (xii) and (xiii) as separately amended by chapters 395 and
     7  743 of the laws of 2022, are amended to read as follows:
     8    (xi)  appropriate  safety  precautions  regarding  electrical hazards,
     9  including plans to promptly secure downed wires within thirty-six  hours
    10  of  notification  of  the location of such downed wires from a municipal
    11  emergency official [or individual]; (xii) plans to prioritize the secur-
    12  ing of downed wires over routine maintenance or other work unrelated  to
    13  a  response to an emergency event after notification by an individual of
    14  the location of such downed wires and where such  notification  includes
    15  information indicating wire burning, arcing/sparking, or the restriction
    16  of  ingress  and  egress  from a building or vehicle, or other immediate
    17  hazards. Such plans shall, at minimum, include procedures  to  identify,
    18  locate,  and  assess  the  reported wire no later than seventy-two hours
    19  after the response to an emergency  event  ends;  (xiii)  plans  setting
    20  forth  how  the  communication  and  coordination of efforts between the
    21  electric corporation, electric corporation  employees,  electric  corpo-
    22  ration  company  crews, mutual aid crews, other utilities, local govern-
    23  ments and any other entity performing services to assist  such  electric
    24  corporation shall occur; and [(xiii)] (xiv) such other additional infor-
    25  mation as the commission may require.
    26    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    27  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the public service  law
    28  relating  to  the  emergency response plans relating to downed wires, as
    29  proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7230 and A. 237, takes effect.

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