Senate Bill S4430

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the contents of emergency response plans required to be submitted to the public service commission by electric corporations

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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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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:
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

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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