Bill Text: NY S04052 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S04052 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04052-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4052
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 26, 2015
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       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    S  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.
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       S. 4052                             2
    1  municipality  from  domestic  consumers  receiving  single-phase service
    2  within the same village, town or municipality.
    3    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    4  have become a law.