Senate Bill S7294

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to penalties for certain utilities

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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-S7294 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7074
Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§25 & 25-a, Pub Serv L

2023-S7294 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "utility penalty adjustment"; adjusts utility penalties to account for inflation; increases such penalties and ties them to inflation after January 1, 2025.

2023-S7294 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S7294 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7294
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 19, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- 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 certain penalties
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "utility penalty adjustment".
   §  2. Subdivisions 2, 3 and 4 of section 25 of the public service law,
 subdivisions 3 and 4 as added by chapter 665 of the  laws  of  1980  and
 subdivision  2,  paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  3 and paragraph (a) of
 subdivision 4 as amended by chapter 375 of the laws of 1986, are amended
 and a new subdivision 4-a is added to read as follows:
   2. Any public utility company, corporation or person and the officers,
 agents and employees thereof that knowingly fails or neglects to obey or
 comply with a provision of  this  chapter  or  an  order  adopted  under
 authority  of  this chapter so long as the same shall be in force, shall
 forfeit to the people of the state of New York a sum not exceeding [one]
 TWO hundred SEVENTY-FIVE thousand dollars constituting a  civil  penalty
 for  each  and every offense and, in the case of a continuing violation,
 each day shall be deemed a separate and distinct offense.
   3. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision two of this  section,
 any such public utility company, corporation or person and the officers,
 agents and employees thereof that knowingly fails or neglects to obey or
 comply  with  a  provision  of  this  chapter, or an order or regulation
 adopted under the authority of this chapter,  adopted  specifically  for
 the protection of human safety, including but not limited to the commis-
 sion's  code of gas safety regulations shall, if it is determined by the
 commission that such safety violation caused or constituted a contribut-
 ing factor in bringing about a death or personal injury, forfeit to  the
 state of New York a sum not to exceed the greater of:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10392-03-3
              

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