Bill Text: NY S02435 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Repeals certain provisions relating to a temporary state energy and utility service conservation assessment; reduces the total amount that can be charged from one percent to one-third of one percent.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-29 - PRINT NUMBER 2435A [S02435 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S02435-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        2435--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 17, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sens.  RANZENHOFER, AVELLA, DeFRANCISCO, GIPSON, GRIFFO,
         LARKIN, MAZIARZ, NOZZOLIO -- read twice and ordered printed, and  when
         printed  to  be  committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
         cations -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
         cations  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 service law,  in  relation  to  reducing  the
         amount  a  utility can be assessed and to repeal certain provisions of
         such law relating to a temporary  state  energy  and  utility  service
         conservation assessment
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 18-a of the public service law  is
    2  REPEALED.
    3    S  2.  Paragraph  (g)  of  subdivision 2 of section 18-a of the public
    4  service law, as amended by section 2 of part A of  chapter  173  of  the
    5  laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
    6    (g) The total amount which may be charged to any public utility compa-
    7  ny  and the Long Island power authority under authority of this subdivi-
    8  sion for any state fiscal year shall not exceed  ONE-THIRD  OF  one  per
    9  centum  of  such public utility company's or authority's gross operating
   10  revenues derived from intrastate utility operations in the last  preced-
   11  ing  calendar  year,  or  other twelve month period as determined by the
   12  chairman; provided, however, that  no  corporation  or  person  that  is
   13  subject to the jurisdiction of the commission only with respect to safe-
   14  ty, or the power authority of the state of New York, shall be subject to
   15  the general assessment provided for under this subdivision.
   16    Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section, for
   17  telephone  corporations  as  defined in subdivision seventeen of section
   18  two of this article, the total amount which may be charged  such  corpo-
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  rations  for  department expenses under the authority of subdivision one
    2  of this section for any state fiscal year shall not exceed one-third  of
    3  one  percentum  of  such corporation's gross operating revenue, over and
    4  above  five  hundred  thousand  dollars, derived from intrastate utility
    5  operations in the last preceding calendar year, or  other  twelve  month
    6  period as determined by the chairman.
    7    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.