Bill Text: NY S04573 | 2021-2022 | 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) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S04573 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S04573-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4573

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 5, 2021
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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    §  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. 4573                             2

     1  municipality  from  domestic  consumers  receiving  single-phase service
     2  within the same village, town or municipality.
     3    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law.