Bill Text: NY S02042 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 2042 (Prior Session Legislation)

NY State Legislature page for S02042

Bill Title: Subjects the Long Island Power Authority and power purchase agreements with third parties to the provisions of the freedom of information law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-11 - PRINT NUMBER 2042A [S02042 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S02042-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         2042--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 19, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. GAUGHRAN, BROOKS -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and  Tele-
          communications  -- recommitted to the Committee on Energy and Telecom-
          munications in accordance with Senate Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the applica-
          bility of the freedom of information law  to  the  Long  Island  Power
          Authority and the disclosure of third party power purchase agreements

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

     1    Section 1.  The public authorities law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 1020-ll to read as follows:
     3    §  1020-ll.  Authority  subject to freedom of information law. 1.  The
     4  authority shall be subject to the  provisions  of  article  six  of  the
     5  public officers law relating to the freedom of information law.
     6    2.  Power  purchase  agreements with third parties shall be subject to
     7  full disclosure. The authority shall make such contracts  available  for
     8  public  inspection  and  copying. The authority shall not determine that
     9  such agreements are exempt from disclosure in full or in part,  pursuant
    10  to  paragraph  (d)  of  subdivision  two  of section eighty-seven of the
    11  public officers law.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08671-03-2