Bill Text: NY S01450 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits the commissioner of general services from leasing or granting certain property rights to any entity to lay electric transmission lines when such lines transmit energy over an electric transmission line that interconnects a location outside of the United States when the transmission does not provide access to electric generating facilities within the state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S01450 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S01450-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1450 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. O'MARA, AMEDORE, ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investi- gations and Government Operations AN ACT to amend the public lands law, in relation to the authority to grant property rights The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 3 of the public lands law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 8 to read as follows: 3 8. (a) Notwithstanding any law, rule, regulation, policy, order or 4 executive action to the contrary, the commissioner of general services 5 shall not lease, or grant rights or easements to, the bed of Lake Cham- 6 plain and to the bed of the Hudson River to any individual, trustee, 7 partnership, association, corporation, company, municipality, political 8 subdivision or other legal entity for laying an electric transmission 9 line, including but not limited to a high voltage direct current elec- 10 tric transmission line, that enters commercial operation after the 11 effective date of this subdivision, if such transmission line intercon- 12 nects a location outside the territorial limits of the United States to 13 a location within the state and such transmission line: (i) is not a 14 merchant transmission line; or (ii) does not provide access within the 15 upstate region to electric generating facilities located within the 16 upstate region to transmit energy to a location within the downstate 17 region. 18 (b) For the purposes of this subdivision, a "merchant transmission 19 line" shall mean an electric transmission line and all related facili- 20 ties, including but not limited to voltage source converter stations for 21 a high voltage direct current transmission line, that: (i) are devel- 22 oped, financed, constructed, and operated without any reliance on cost- 23 of-service rates set by either a federal or state regulatory entity; and 24 (ii) are not included in the utility rate base, either directly or EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05809-01-9S. 1450 2 1 through a contractual arrangement between the developer of the trans- 2 mission line and any agency, authority or other entity of the state, any 3 municipal subdivision of the state, any utility subject to cost-based 4 regulation, or any instrumentality of any of the foregoing. 5 (c) For the purposes of this subdivision, "upstate region" shall have 6 the same meaning as in paragraph (b) of subdivision two of section 6-102 7 of the energy law, and "downstate region" shall have the same meaning as 8 in paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section 6-102 of the energy law. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
