Senate Bill S3491

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes a home heating oil rebate program

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Archive: Last 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-S3491 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Add §1885, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S8877
2025-2026: S3302

2023-S3491 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a home heating oil rebate program for residential home heating oil customers to receive a rebate of one dollar per gallon of grade number two heating oil purchased from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024, of a limit up to five hundred gallons.

2023-S3491 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S3491 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3491
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 31, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEIK  --  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 authorities law, in relation to establishing
   a home heating oil rebate program; and providing  for  the  repeal  of
   such provisions upon expiration thereof

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The public authorities law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 section 1885 to read as follows:
   §  1885.  HOME  HEATING OIL REBATE PROGRAM. 1. THE AUTHORITY IS HEREBY
 AUTHORIZED TO  ESTABLISH  AND  ADMINISTER  A  HOME  HEATING  OIL  REBATE
 PROGRAM.  THE AUTHORITY SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR GATHERING ALL NECESSARY
 RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER PURCHASE DATA FROM ALL REGISTERED HOME HEATING  OIL
 DEALERS IN THE STATE.
   2.  THE AUTHORITY SHALL HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF DISTRIBUTING REBATE
 CHECKS TO RESIDENTIAL HOME HEATING OIL CUSTOMERS. SUCH REBATE  SHALL  BE
 IN  THE  AMOUNT  OF ONE DOLLAR PER GALLON, UP TO A LIMIT OF FIVE HUNDRED
 GALLONS, OF NUMBER TWO HEATING OIL PURCHASED BETWEEN THE DATES  OF  JULY
 FIRST,  TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE AND JUNE THIRTIETH, TWO THOUSAND TWEN-
 TY-FOUR.
   3. THE AUTHORITY SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE ADMIN-
 ISTRATION OF A HOME HEATING OIL REBATE PROGRAM ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO
 THIS  SECTION, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA, APPLI-
 CATION PROCEDURES, AND DOCUMENTATION AND COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
 PROGRAM.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire  December
 31,  2024 when upon such date the provisions of this act shall be deemed
 repealed.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07026-01-3

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