Bill Text: NY S04058 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires combination gas and electric corporations, the New York Power Authority, and the Long Island Power Authority to provide an annual transparency statement to customers detailing certain charges on a gross basis which are included in each customer's delivery service portion of their utility bill.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-26 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S04058 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S04058-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4058 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 26, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ANTONACCI -- 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 and the public authorities law, in relation to requiring combination gas and electric corporations, the New York Power Authority and the Long Island Power Authority to provide an annual transparency statement to customers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 44 of the public service law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 6 to read as follows: 3 6. Commencing on January first, two thousand twenty-two, every combi- 4 nation gas and electric corporation on an annual basis, shall provide 5 each customer with an annual transparency statement which shall detail 6 the following charges on a gross basis which are included in each 7 customer's delivery service portion of their utility bill, including but 8 not limited to: (i) property taxes; (ii) sales and compensating use 9 taxes; (iii) costs and expenses of the commission and department pursu- 10 ant to section eighteen-a of this chapter; (iv) gross receipts taxes; 11 (v) franchise and income taxes; (vi) metropolitan transportation author- 12 ity payroll taxes; and (vii) fees, charges and costs imposed by the 13 public service commission which are embedded in the customer bill. Such 14 fees, charges and costs shall include costs from the implementation of 15 reforming energy vision, energy efficiency, distributed energy resources 16 and zero emission credits. Such transparency statement shall provide a 17 percentage of the foregoing charges as applied to the average bill of a 18 customer of such utility. 19 § 2. Section 1005 of the public authorities law is amended by adding a 20 new subdivision 26 to read as follows: 21 26. Commencing on January first, two thousand twenty-two, the authori- 22 ty, on an annual basis, shall provide each customer with an annual tran- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07018-01-9S. 4058 2 1 sparency statement which shall detail the following charges on a gross 2 basis which are included in each customer's delivery service portion of 3 their utility bill, including but not limited to: (i) property taxes; 4 (ii) sales and compensating use taxes; (iii) costs and expenses of the 5 authority and the public service commission pursuant to section eigh- 6 teen-a of the public service law; (iv) gross receipts taxes; (v) fran- 7 chise and income taxes; (vi) metropolitan transportation authority 8 payroll taxes; and (vii) fees, charges and costs imposed by the authori- 9 ty which are embedded in the customer bill. Such fees, charges and costs 10 shall include costs from the implementation of reforming energy vision, 11 energy efficiency, distributed energy resources and zero emission cred- 12 its. Such transparency statement shall provide a percentage of the fore- 13 going charges as applied to the average bill of a customer of such util- 14 ity. 15 § 3. Sections 1020-jj, 1020-kk, 1020-ll and 1020-ll of the public 16 authorities law, sections 1020-jj, 1020-kk and 1020-ll as renumbered by 17 chapter 520 of the laws of 2018, and section 1020-ll as renumbered by 18 chapter 415 of the laws of 2017, are renumbered sections 1020-ww, 1020- 19 xx, 1020-yy, and 1020-zz and a new section 1020-jj is added to read as 20 follows: 21 § 1020-jj. Customer bills. Commencing on January first, two thousand 22 twenty-two, the authority, on an annual basis, shall provide each 23 customer with an annual transparency statement which shall detail the 24 following charges on a gross basis which are included in each customer's 25 delivery service portion of their utility bill, including but not limit- 26 ed to: (i) property taxes; (ii) sales and compensating use taxes; (iii) 27 costs and expenses of the authority and the public service commission 28 pursuant to section eighteen-a of the public service law; (iv) gross 29 receipts taxes; (v) franchise and income taxes; (vi) metropolitan trans- 30 portation authority payroll taxes; and (vii) fees, charges and costs 31 imposed by the authority which are embedded in the customer bill. Such 32 fees, charges and costs shall include costs from the implementation of 33 reforming energy vision, energy efficiency, distributed energy resources 34 and zero emission credits. Such transparency statement shall provide a 35 percentage of the foregoing charges as applied to the average bill of a 36 customer of such utility. 37 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
