Bill Text: NY S00543 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 543 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the department of public service and limits increases in the amount of surcharges; establishes a moratorium on new surcharge assessments, taxes or fees.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S00543 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00543-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           543
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  FUNKE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  service  law,  in  relation to limiting
          increases in the  amount  of  surcharges  established  by  the  public
          service commission
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be  cited  as  the  "Energy
     2  assessment cap and consumer cost relief act of 2017".
     3    §  2.  The public service law is amended by adding a new section 18 to
     4  read as follows:
     5    § 18. Limit on surcharge increases.  Notwithstanding  any  law,  rule,
     6  regulation  or  order to the contrary, the commission shall not increase
     7  the amount of  the  surcharge  of  the  system  benefit  charge  or  the
     8  surcharge  for the renewable portfolio standard or the surcharge for the
     9  energy efficiency portfolio standard or any similar  fund  that  may  be
    10  created  by  order  of  the commission before the effective date of this
    11  section, whether such fund is new or is a result  of  combining  all  or
    12  some of the surcharges referenced herein.  Nothing in this section shall
    13  be  construed  as  to prevent the commission from lowering the amount of
    14  any surcharge  either  individually  or  collectively  from  the  amount
    15  collected  in  two  thousand sixteen, except that under no circumstances
    16  shall the total cost of those charges exceed the total aggregate amounts
    17  in two thousand sixteen.
    18    § 3. Moratorium on new energy taxes and fees. Notwithstanding any law,
    19  rule, regulation or order to the contrary, the public service commission
    20  shall not establish any new surcharge assessment, tax or fee  on  energy
    21  consumers,  excepting those fees which may arise from an electric gener-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04221-01-7
        S. 543                              2
     1  ating facility that provides notice of closure to such commission and  a
     2  reliability need is identified by the bulk system operator.
     3    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.