Bill Text: NY S03082 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires gas and electric corporations to charge not-for-profit organized sports programs for youth residential rates for utilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-07 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S03082 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S03082-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3082 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 27, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 service law, in relation to utility rates charged to not-for-profit organized sports programs for youth The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 76 of the public service law, as amended by chapter 2 82 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 76. Rates charged veteran organizations, religious bodies [and], 4 community residences and not-for-profit organized sports programs for 5 youth. No gas corporation, electric corporation or municipality shall, 6 directly or indirectly, charge, demand, collect or receive from any post 7 or hall owned or leased by a not-for-profit corporation that is a veter- 8 ans' organization, or corporation or association organized and conducted 9 in good faith for religious purposes, including the operation by such 10 corporation or association of a school, notwithstanding that secular 11 subjects are taught at such school, or from a community residence as 12 defined in subdivision twenty-eight, twenty-eight-a or twenty-eight-b of 13 section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law, provided, however, that such 14 residence shall be operated by a not-for-profit corporation and if 15 supervisory staff is on site on a twenty-four hour per day basis, that 16 the residence provides living accommodations for fourteen or fewer resi- 17 dents, or from a not-for-profit organized sports program for youth, a 18 rate, regardless of the type of service offered, for any gas or electric 19 service utilized exclusively in connection with such [veteran] veterans' 20 organization or for such religious purposes or utilized exclusively at 21 such community residence or used by a not-for-profit organized sports 22 program for youth greater than the rates or charges charged, demanded, 23 collected or received by such gas corporation, electric corporation or EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07508-01-3S. 3082 2 1 municipality from domestic consumers receiving single-phase service 2 within the same village, town or municipality. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 4 have become a law.
