Bill Text: NY A10370 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the public service commission and the Long Island power authority to establish standards of acceptable performance for gas and electric corporations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-13 - referred to energy [A10370 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10370-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10370

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 13, 2022
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cahill) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Energy

        AN ACT to amend the public service law and the public  authorities  law,
          in  relation  to  requiring the public service commission and the Long
          Island power authority to establish standards of  acceptable  perform-
          ance for gas and electric corporations

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

     1    Section 1. Section 66 of the public service law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 2-b to read as follows:
     3    2-b. Have power to establish standards of acceptable  performance  for
     4  gas  corporations  and  electric  corporations  in  the event of a power
     5  outage and subsequent power restoration.
     6    (a) Such rules and regulations shall set performance standards for the
     7  restoration of power based on the foreseeable nature of the  outage  and
     8  the number of customers affected.
     9    (b) After an investigation and hearing held on notice and upon a find-
    10  ing  of  unacceptable performance, the commission shall impose a penalty
    11  for each violation which the commission deems just and proper.
    12    (c) Such penalties shall include but not be limited  to  a  credit  to
    13  each  customer  of the amount of money charged for one kilowatt hour for
    14  each kilowatt hour of service outage.
    15    § 2. Section 1020-f of the public authorities law is amended by adding
    16  a new subdivision (jj) to read as follows:
    17    (jj) The authority and its service providers shall have the  power  to
    18  establish  standards  of acceptable   performance  for gas  corporations
    19  and  electric  corporations  in  the event of a power outage and  subse-
    20  quent power restoration.
    21    1.  Such rules and regulations shall set performance standards for the
    22  restoration of power based on the foreseeable nature of the  outage  and
    23  the number of customers affected.
    24    2. The authority may impose a penalty for  each  violation  which  the
    25  authority  deems just and proper, following an investigation and hearing
    26  held on notice and upon a finding  of  unacceptable performance.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07254-03-2
        A. 10370                            2

     1    3. Such penalties shall include but not be limited  to  a  credit   to
     2  each  customer  of the amount of money charged for one kilowatt hour for
     3  each kilowatt hour of service outage.
     4    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.