Bill Text: NY S03491 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3491

Introduced

Bill Title: Establishes a home heating oil rebate program for residential home heating oil customers to receive a rebate of one dollar per gallon of grade number two heating oil purchased from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024, of a limit up to five hundred gallons.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S03491 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03491-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3491

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 31, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  WEIK  --  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 establishing
          a home heating oil rebate program; and providing  for  the  repeal  of
          such provisions upon expiration thereof

          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 1885 to read as follows:
     3    §  1885.  Home  heating oil rebate program. 1. The authority is hereby
     4  authorized to  establish  and  administer  a  home  heating  oil  rebate
     5  program.  The authority shall be responsible for gathering all necessary
     6  residential customer purchase data from all registered home heating  oil
     7  dealers in the state.
     8    2.  The authority shall have the responsibility of distributing rebate
     9  checks to residential home heating oil customers. Such rebate  shall  be
    10  in  the  amount  of one dollar per gallon, up to a limit of five hundred
    11  gallons, of number two heating oil purchased between the dates  of  July
    12  first,  two thousand twenty-three and June thirtieth, two thousand twen-
    13  ty-four.
    14    3. The authority shall promulgate rules and regulations for the admin-
    15  istration of a home heating oil rebate program established  pursuant  to
    16  this  section, including but not limited to eligibility criteria, appli-
    17  cation procedures, and documentation and compliance requirements for the
    18  program.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire  December
    20  31,  2024 when upon such date the provisions of this act shall be deemed
    21  repealed.

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