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                                 2435--A

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 17, 2013
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Introduced  by  Sens.  RANZENHOFER, AVELLA, DeFRANCISCO, GIPSON, GRIFFO,
  LARKIN, MAZIARZ, NOZZOLIO -- read twice and ordered printed, and  when
  printed  to  be  committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
  cations -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
  cations  in  accordance  with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8  -- committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to said committee

AN ACT to amend the public service law,  in  relation  to  reducing  the
  amount  a  utility can be assessed and to repeal certain provisions of
  such law relating to a temporary  state  energy  and  utility  service
  conservation assessment

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 18-a of the public service law  is
REPEALED.
  S  2.  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 compa-
ny  and the Long Island power authority under authority of this subdivi-
sion 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  preced-
ing  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 safe-
ty, 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  corpo-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00165-04-4
              

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rations  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.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.