Bill Text: NY S04305 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to requiring cellular telephone companies and third-party service providers to provide plans to the public service commission to make all cell towers one hundred percent renewable energy powered by 2031.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-01-29 - ADVANCED TO THIRD READING [S04305 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S04305-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4305 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 7, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- 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 requiring cellu- lar telephone companies and third- party service providers to provide plans to the public service commission to make all cell towers one hundred percent renewable energy powered by 2031 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 92-j to read as follows: 3 § 92-j. Cell towers; renewable energy. Notwithstanding section five 4 of this chapter or any other law to the contrary, no later than December 5 thirty-first, two thousand twenty-five, any cellular telephone company 6 or third-party service provider who operates cell towers within the 7 state shall provide plans to the commission to make all cell towers, 8 maintained and constructed by such company or service provider within 9 the state, one hundred percent renewable energy powered by two thousand 10 thirty-one. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06272-01-3
