Bill Text: NY A11297 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the New York state comptroller and New York Public Service Commission to conduct a feasibility study on supplying public water to all of New York American Water customers; provides for a report to be issued within one year of the effective date of this act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-07-25 - referred to governmental operations [A11297 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A11297-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 11297 IN ASSEMBLY July 25, 2018 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Pellegrino) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT in relation to directing the New York state comptroller and the New York Public Service Commission to conduct a feasibility study on supplying public water to all of New York American Water customers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. a. The New York state comptroller, in conjunction with the 2 New York Public Service Commission, shall conduct a feasibility study 3 and prepare a report on supplying public water service to New York Amer- 4 ican Water customers. Such study shall explore the overall costs of such 5 public water service, and establish a cost-effective and efficient meth- 6 od of providing such public water service. Such study shall also estab- 7 lish whether converting to public water service would result in 8 decreased cost and increased quality of water service for current New 9 York American Water customers. 10 b. Within one year of the effective date of this act, the New York 11 state comptroller and the New York Public Service Commission shall issue 12 a report of the findings of the feasibility study to the governor, the 13 temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16401-01-8