Assembly Bill A986

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the restoration of electric power services during a widespread outage

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Current Bill Status - Signed by Governor


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A986 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2224
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §73-a, Pub Serv L; amd §1020-mm, Pub Auth L; rpld §709 sub 2 ¶(v), amd §24, Exec L; amd §4, Chap of 2022 (as proposed in S.926-C & A.3318-C)

2023-A986 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the restoration of electric power services during a widespread outage; requires electric corporations and the Long Island power authority service provider during a widespread prolonged outage that affects at least twenty thousand customers to notify the village, town or city if certain electric power services are not able to be restored; requires the chief executive to coordinate with affected police departments, fire departments, ambulance services and advanced life support first response services prewired with an appropriate transfer switch for using an alternate generated power source for the emergency deployment of alternate generated power sources.

2023-A986 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    986
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 11, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the public service law, the public authorities law and
   the executive law, in relation to the restoration  of  electric  power
   services during a widespread outage; to amend a chapter of the laws of
   2022  amending  the public service law, the public authorities law and
   the executive law relating to requiring electric corporations and  the
   Long  Island  power authority service provider to prioritize restoring
   services  to  police  departments,  fire  departments  and   ambulance
   services,  when  electric  services  are  interrupted,  as proposed in
   legislative bills numbers S. 926-C and A. 3318-C, in relation  to  the
   effectiveness  thereof; and to repeal certain provisions of the execu-
   tive law relating thereto
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 73-a of the public service law, as added by a chap-
 ter  of  the  laws  of  2022 amending the public service law, the public
 authorities law and the executive law  relating  to  requiring  electric
 corporations  and  the  Long  Island power authority service provider to
 prioritize restoring services to police departments,  fire  departments,
 and  ambulance  services,  when  electric  services  are interrupted, as
 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 926-C and A. 3318-C, is amended
 to read as follows:
   § 73-a. Prioritization of emergency services. 1. If,  DURING  A  WIDE-
 SPREAD  PROLONGED OUTAGE THAT AFFECTS AT LEAST TWENTY THOUSAND CUSTOMERS
 IN THE SERVICE TERRITORY OF an electric  corporation,  AND  SUCH  CORPO-
 RATION is not able to restore electric power services WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR
 HOURS to any AFFECTED police department, fire department, [or] ambulance
 service  [which  has  a] OR ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT FIRST RESPONSE SERVICE
 facility that is prewired with an appropriate transfer switch for  using
 an  alternate  generated  power  source [within twenty-four hours of the
 loss or interruption of such electric  power  services],  such  electric
 corporation  shall  notify the [local county office of emergency manage-
 ment which shall provide for emergency deployment of alternate generated

              

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