Bill Text: NY S06335 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-30 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8288B [S06335 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6335
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 11, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- 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 utility
          corporations 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 nineteen,  every  utility
     4  corporation  on  an  annual  basis,  shall provide each customer with an
     5  annual transparency statement which shall detail the  following  charges
     6  on  a gross basis which are included in each customer's delivery service
     7  portion of their utility bill, including but not limited to: (i) proper-
     8  ty taxes; (ii)  sales  and  compensating  use  taxes;  (iii)  costs  and
     9  expenses of the commission and department pursuant to section eighteen-a
    10  of  this  chapter;  (iv)  gross receipts taxes; (v) franchise and income
    11  taxes; (vi) metropolitan transportation  authority  payroll  taxes;  and
    12  (vii)  fees,  charges and costs imposed by the public service commission
    13  which are embedded in the customer bill. Such fees,  charges  and  costs
    14  shall  include costs from the implementation of reforming energy vision,
    15  energy efficiency, distributed energy resources and zero emission  cred-
    16  its. Such transparency statement shall provide a percentage of the fore-
    17  going charges as applied to the average bill of a customer of such util-
    18  ity.
    19    § 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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