Bill Text: NY S08922 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8922 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizes an investigation by the public service commission during a declared state of emergency to review the performance of the Long Island power authority and any of its service providers in restoring service or otherwise meeting the requirements of the emergency response plan during an emergency event.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-19 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08922 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08922-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8922

                    IN SENATE

                                     August 19, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. GAUGHRAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation  to  authorizing
          an  investigation  by  the public service commission during a declared
          state of emergency

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section 1020-s of the public authorities law, as added by
     2  chapter 517 of the laws of 1986, is amended by adding a new  subdivision
     3  3 to read as follows:
     4    3.  Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, if the governor declares
     5  a state declaration of disaster emergency pursuant  to  section  twenty-
     6  eight  of the executive law where the affected area includes any portion
     7  of the service territory, and such area experiences any widespread power
     8  outage persisting for a period of seventy-two hours or more, the  public
     9  service  commission  may open an investigation to review the performance
    10  of the authority and any of its service providers in  restoring  service
    11  or  otherwise  meeting  the  requirements of the emergency response plan
    12  during an emergency event.  If,  after  evidentiary  hearings  or  other
    13  investigatory  proceedings, the public service commission finds that the
    14  authority or its service providers failed to  reasonably  implement  its
    15  emergency  response plan or the length of outages were materially longer
    16  than they would have been, because of  such  authority  or  its  service
    17  providers  failure  to reasonably implement its emergency response plan,
    18  the public service commission may deny the recovery of any part  of  the
    19  service  restoration costs caused by such failure, commensurate with the
    20  degree and impact of the service outage.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17139-02-0