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

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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]

Download: New_York-2017-S05175-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5175--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 10, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  O'MARA,  AMEDORE,  MURPHY, ORTT -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Investigations and Government Operations -- committee discharged, bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        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.  (a)  Notwithstanding  any  law, rule, regulation, policy, order or
     4  executive action to the contrary, the commissioner of  general  services
     5  shall  not lease, or grant rights or easements to, the bed of Lake Cham-
     6  plain and to the bed of the Hudson River  to  any  individual,  trustee,
     7  partnership,  association, corporation, company, municipality, political
     8  subdivision or other legal entity for laying  an  electric  transmission
     9  line,  including  but not limited to a high voltage direct current elec-
    10  tric transmission line,  that  enters  commercial  operation  after  the
    11  effective  date of this subdivision, if such transmission line intercon-
    12  nects a location outside the territorial limits of the United States  to
    13  a  location  within  the  state and such transmission line: (i) is not a
    14  merchant transmission line; or (ii) does not provide access  within  the
    15  state  to  electric  generating  facilities  located within the state to
    16  transmit energy to a location within the state.
    17    (b) For the purposes of this  subdivision,  a  "merchant  transmission
    18  line"  shall  mean an electric transmission line and all related facili-
    19  ties, including but not limited to voltage source converter stations for
    20  a high voltage direct current transmission line, that:  (i)  are  devel-
    21  oped,  financed, constructed, and operated without any reliance on cost-
    22  of-service rates set by either a federal or state regulatory entity; and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  (ii) are not included in the  utility  rate  base,  either  directly  or
     2  through  a  contractual  arrangement between the developer of the trans-
     3  mission line and any agency, authority or other entity of the state, any
     4  municipal  subdivision  of  the state, any utility subject to cost-based
     5  regulation, or any instrumentality of any of the foregoing.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.