Bill Text: NY S03053 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 3053 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to directing the public service commission to require that gas and electric corporations establish a rate classification for volunteer emergency response organizations which shall not be greater than the rate for veterans' organizations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-15 - PRINT NUMBER 3053A [S03053 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03053-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         3053--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 2, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens. ORTT, YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommu-
          nications -- 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  a  rate  classi-
          fication for volunteer emergency response organizations
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Legislative  findings  and  intent.  Volunteer  emergency
     2  response organizations provide a public benefit to the state of New York
     3  and lessen the burdens of government. Further, members of these not-for-
     4  profit  organizations  risk their lives to ensure the safety, health and
     5  general welfare of our citizens. In the past,  the  state  of  New  York
     6  recognized  the  value  of  similar  organizations and the sacrifices of
     7  their members when it established a reduced utility rate  for  veterans'
     8  organizations. Therefore, the legislature hereby finds and declares that
     9  volunteer  emergency  response organizations and veterans' organizations
    10  are similarly situated in their structures, practices and  actions,  and
    11  further  finds and declares that a reduced utility rate is justified for
    12  volunteer emergency response organizations to help ensure their  contin-
    13  ued operation.
    14    §  2.  Subdivision  14  of  section  66  of the public service law, as
    15  amended by chapter 696 of the laws  of  1936,  is  amended  to  read  as
    16  follows:
    17    14.  (a)  The  commission  shall have power to require each gas corpo-
    18  ration and electric corporation to establish classifications of  service
    19  based  upon the quantity used, the time when used, the purpose for which
    20  used, the duration of use and upon any other  reasonable  consideration,
    21  and  to  establish in connection therewith just and reasonable graduated
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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