Bill Text: NY S03983 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits the use of surcharges paid by ratepayers to support any program related to supporting clean energy, renewable energy, or energy efficiency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S03983 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3983--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 31, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  FUNKE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to  amend  the  public  service  law,  in  relation  to  limiting
          surcharges imposed on ratepayers
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  18 to read as follows:
     3    §  18.  Limits  on  uses of surcharges imposed on New York ratepayers.
     4  Notwithstanding any law, rule, regulation, policy,  order  or  executive
     5  action  to  the contrary, money collected from ratepayers to support any
     6  program related to supporting clean or renewable energy or energy  effi-
     7  ciency currently in place or any similar successor program, shall not be
     8  used  to  subsidize,  incentivize or in any way support energy generated
     9  outside of New York state or the United States if such energy is  trans-
    10  mitted  over an electric transmission line, including but not limited to
    11  a high voltage direct current electric transmission  line,  that  enters
    12  commercial  operation  after the effective date of this section and that
    13  connects a location outside the territorial limits of the United  States
    14  to  a location within New York state and that does not provide access in
    15  New York state to electric generating facilities  located  in  New  York
    16  state  to  transmit energy to a location within New York state. Further,
    17  energy generated outside of the state,  and  its  related  environmental
    18  attributes,  may  not  be  counted against any environmental goal estab-
    19  lished by the state, whether by law, regulation, order, policy or execu-
    20  tive action.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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