Senate Bill S1487

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Appoints ad hoc members to the New York state board on electric generation siting and the environment

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Energy And Telecommunications Committee


  • 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-S1487 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §161, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S6774
2021-2022: S3714

2023-S1487 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to appointing ad hoc members to the New York state board on electric generation siting and the environment; provides notification of the status of proposed candidates for appointment.

2023-S1487 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S1487 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1487
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 12, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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 appointing ad hoc
   members  to the New York state board on electric generation siting and
   the environment

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 161 of the public service law, as
 added by chapter 388 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   2. (A) Upon receipt of a pre-application preliminary scoping statement
 under this article, the chair shall promptly notify  the  governor,  the
 president  pro tem of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chief
 executive officers representing the municipality and the county in which
 the facility is proposed  to  be  located,  and,  if  such  facility  is
 proposed  to  be  located  within the city of New York, the mayor of the
 city of New York, as well as the chairperson of the community board  and
 the  borough  president  representing  the area in which the facility is
 proposed to be located. One ad hoc member  shall  be  appointed  by  the
 president pro tem of the senate and one ad hoc member shall be appointed
 by  the  speaker  of the assembly from a list of candidates submitted to
 them, in the following manner.  If  such  facility  is  proposed  to  be
 located  outside  of  the  city of New York, the chief executive officer
 representing the municipality shall nominate  four  candidates  and  the
 chief  executive  officer  representing  the  county shall nominate four
 candidates for consideration. If such facility is proposed to be located
 outside of the city of New York and in a village located within a  town,
 the  chief  executive  officer representing the town shall nominate four
 candidates, the chief executive officer representing  the  county  shall
 nominate  four  candidates, and the chief executive officer representing
 the village shall nominate four candidates for  consideration.  If  such
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05177-01-3
              

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