Bill Text: NY A11018 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes an investigation by the public service commission during a declared state of emergency to review the performance of the Long Island power authority and any of its service providers in restoring service or otherwise meeting the requirements of the emergency response plan during an emergency event.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-09-09 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A11018 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A11018-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 11018 IN ASSEMBLY September 9, 2020 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Thiele) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to authorizing an investigation by the public service commission during a declared state of emergency The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1020-s of the public authorities law, as added by 2 chapter 517 of the laws of 1986, is amended by adding a new subdivision 3 3 to read as follows: 4 3. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, if the governor declares 5 a state declaration of disaster emergency pursuant to section twenty- 6 eight of the executive law where the affected area includes any portion 7 of the service territory, and such area experiences any widespread power 8 outage persisting for a period of seventy-two hours or more, the public 9 service commission may open an investigation to review the performance 10 of the authority and any of its service providers in restoring service 11 or otherwise meeting the requirements of the emergency response plan 12 during an emergency event. If, after evidentiary hearings or other 13 investigatory proceedings, the public service commission finds that the 14 authority or its service providers failed to reasonably implement its 15 emergency response plan or the length of outages were materially longer 16 than they would have been, because of such authority or its service 17 providers failure to reasonably implement its emergency response plan, 18 the public service commission may deny the recovery of any part of the 19 service restoration costs caused by such failure, commensurate with the 20 degree and impact of the service outage. 21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD17139-02-0