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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Senate Bill S4430
2025-2026 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) 14th Senate District
Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Energy And Telecommunications Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2025-S4430 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Energy And Telecommunications
- Law Section:
- Public Service Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §66, Pub Serv L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2019-2020:
S8932
2021-2022: S4030
2023-2024: S5600
2025-S4430 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Relates to the contents of emergency response plans required to be submitted to the public service commission by electric corporations; requires such plans to include details of staffing, equipment, and ability to perform toward certain standards; requires the public service commission to establish a time-based restoration schedule.
2025-S4430 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S4430 SPONSOR: COMRIE TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public service law, in relation to the contents of emergency response plans required to be submitted to the public service commission by electric corporations PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: Amends the public service law to support reasonably prompt restoration of electrical service in the case of an emergency event. These response plans should include details of staffing, equipment and a performance schedule with the goal of achieving restoration of service based upon a time-based restoration schedule established by the Public Service Commission, utilizing benchmarks including, but not limited to, the percentage of customers restored within each twenty-four hour interval following the storm event. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
2025-S4430 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4430 2025-2026 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 4, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- 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 the contents of emergency response plans required to be submitted to the public service commission by electric corporations THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 21 of section 66 of the public service law, as separately amended by chapters 395 and 743 of the laws of 2022, subparagraph (iii) as separately amended by chapter 38 of the laws of 2023, subparagraph (xi) as separately amended by chapter 743 of the laws of 2022 and chapter 38 of the laws of 2024, subparagraphs (xii), (xiii) and (xiv) as amended by chapter 38 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows: (a) Each electric corporation subject to section twenty-five-a of this chapter shall annually, on or before December fifteenth, submit to the commission an emergency response plan for review and approval. The emer- gency response plan shall be designed for the reasonably prompt restora- tion of service in the case of an emergency event, defined for purposes of this subdivision as an event where widespread outages have occurred in the service territory of the company due to storms, cyber attack, or other causes beyond the control of the company. TO SUPPORT REASONABLY PROMPT RESTORATION OF SERVICE IN THE CASE OF AN EMERGENCY EVENT, EMER- GENCY RESPONSE PLANS SHOULD INCLUDE DETAILS OF STAFFING, EQUIPMENT AND A PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE WITH THE GOAL OF ACHIEVING RESTORATION OF SERVICE BASED UPON A TIME-BASED RESTORATION SCHEDULE ESTABLISHED BY THE COMMIS- SION. IN ESTABLISHING SUCH TIME-BASED RESTORATION SCHEDULE, THE COMMIS- SION SHOULD UTILIZE BENCHMARKS FOR THE RESTORATION OF SERVICE WHICH INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE PERCENTAGE OF CUSTOMERS RESTORED WITHIN EACH TWENTY-FOUR-HOUR INTERVAL FOLLOWING THE EMERGENCY EVENT EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05817-01-5
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