What's happening
This bill reduces the maximum amount utilities can be assessed for Department of Public Service and Public Service Commission costs to one-third of one percent of their intrastate revenues.
Why it matters
Utilities would see a direct reduction in the annual fees they pay to fund the Department of Public Service and Public Service Commission. , potentially lowering their operating costs and freeing up resources for other uses or investments.
The change may impact how much funding is available for regulatory oversight and consumer protection. , since the agencies’ budgets are partly funded by these assessments—potentially affecting the scope or quality of utility regulation.
This reduction could have downstream effects on utility customers. Utilities might pass on any savings to ratepayers, but there is also a risk that reduced oversight could increase the likelihood of service issues or regulatory gaps.
The bill maintains specific carve-outs for entities regulated only for safety and for certain telephone corporations. , signaling a targeted approach rather than a universal reduction, which may reflect concerns about maintaining oversight in critical or sensitive service areas.
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Cut Utility Fee Cap
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Sponsors
16 Co-sponsors
2 Multi-sponsors
History
- Held for consideration in corporations, authorities and commissions
- Referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
- Referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1723
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 16, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY, KOLB, MALLIOTAKIS, GIGLIO, CROUCH, FRIEND, BARCLAY, PALMESANO, STEC, BYRNE, DiPIETRO, BRABENEC -- Multi- Sponsored by -- M. of A. McDONOUGH, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to reducing the amount a utility can be assessed for costs and expenses of the department of public service and the public service commission
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 2 of section 18-a of the public service law, as amended by section 2 of part A of chapter 173 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
(g) The total amount which may be charged to any public utility company and the Long Island power authority under authority of this subdivision for any state fiscal year shall not exceed one-third of one per centum of such public utility company's or authority's gross operating revenues derived from intrastate utility operations in the last preceding calendar year, or other twelve month period as determined by the chairman; provided, however, that no corporation or person that is subject to the jurisdiction of the commission only with respect to safety, or the power authority of the state of New York, shall be subject to the general assessment provided for under this subdivision.
Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section, for telephone corporations as defined in subdivision seventeen of section two of this article, the total amount which may be charged such corporations for department expenses under the authority of subdivision one of this section for any state fiscal year shall not exceed one-third of one percentum of such corporation's gross operating revenue, over and above five hundred thousand dollars, derived from intrastate utility operations in the last preceding calendar year, or other twelve month period as determined by the chairman.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02118-01-9
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