Bill Text: NY S02883 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Restores oversight of service provider and third party contracts entered into by the Long Island power authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S02883 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S02883-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2883

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 26, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. GAUGHRAN -- 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 authorities law, in relation to restoring
          oversight of service provider and third party contracts  entered  into
          by the Long Island power authority

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 1020-cc of the public  authorities
     2  law,  as  added  by  section  11 of part A of chapter 173 of the laws of
     3  2013, is amended to read as follows:
     4    2. The authority and service provider shall provide to the state comp-
     5  troller on March thirty-first and September thirtieth  of  each  year  a
     6  report documenting each contract in excess of two hundred fifty thousand
     7  dollars  per year entered into with a third party and related to manage-
     8  ment and operation services associated  with  the  authority's  electric
     9  transmission  and  distribution  system, including the name of the third
    10  party, the contract term and a description of services or  goods  to  be
    11  procured, and post such report on each of their websites. [All contracts
    12  entered  into  between  the  service  provider and third parties are not
    13  subject to the requirements of subdivision one of this section.]
    14    § 2. Severability. If any provision of this  act  or  the  application
    15  thereof  shall  for  any  reason  be  adjudged by any court of competent
    16  jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not  affect,  impair  or
    17  invalidate the remainder of this act, but shall be confined in its oper-
    18  ation  to  the provision thereof directly involved in the controversy in
    19  which the judgment shall have been rendered.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05834-01-1
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