Bill Text: NY S05175 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the commissioner of general services from leasing or granting certain property rights to any entity to lay electric transmission lines when such lines transmit energy over an electric transmission line that interconnects a location outside of the United States when the transmission does not provide access to electric generating facilities within the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S05175 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5175
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 10, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations
        AN ACT to amend the public lands law, in relation to  the  authority  to
          grant property rights
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 3 of the public lands law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
     3    8.  Notwithstanding any law, rule, regulation, policy, order or execu-
     4  tive  action to the contrary, the commissioner of general services shall
     5  not lease, or grant rights or easements to, the bed  of  Lake  Champlain
     6  and  to the bed of the Hudson River to any individual, trustee, partner-
     7  ship, association, corporation, company, municipality, political  subdi-
     8  vision  or  other legal entity for laying an electric transmission line,
     9  including but not limited to a  high  voltage  direct  current  electric
    10  transmission  line, that enters commercial operation after the effective
    11  date of this subdivision, if  such  transmission  line  interconnects  a
    12  location  outside  the  territorial  limits  of  the  United States to a
    13  location within the state and such transmission line  does  not  provide
    14  access within the state to electric generating facilities located within
    15  the state to transmit energy to a location within the state.
    16    § 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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