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Senate Bill S5515

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to providing transparency to residential utility and municipality ratepayers on the cost impact of the climate action council's scoping plan

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2025-S5515 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7021
Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Add §44-a, Pub Serv L

2025-S5515 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires utility corporations and municipalities to ensure that bills for service to residential customers include a line item for cost impact measures taken in accordance with the climate action council's final scoping plan; requires the department of public service to establish a formula to enable utility corporations and municipalities to calculate the cost impact on each residential customer's bill attributed to measures taken in accordance with the climate action council's final scoping plan.

2025-S5515 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5515 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5515
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 24, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK  --  read  twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Energy
   and Telecommunications
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to providing trans-
   parency to residential utility and municipality ratepayers on the cost
   impact of the climate action council's scoping plan
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The public service law is amended by adding a new section
 44-a to read as follows:
   § 44-A. UTILITY BILLS; COST IMPACT OF NEW YORK  STATE  CLIMATE  ACTION
 COUNCIL'S  SCOPING  PLAN.  1. NO LATER THAN ONE YEAR AFTER THE EFFECTIVE
 DATE OF THIS SECTION, EVERY UTILITY CORPORATION  OR  MUNICIPALITY  SHALL
 ENSURE  THAT  BILLS FOR SERVICE TO RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS INCLUDE A SEPA-
 RATE LINE ITEM FOR THE COST IMPACT OF MEASURES TAKEN IN ACCORDANCE  WITH
 THE  CLIMATE  ACTION  COUNCIL'S  FINAL  SCOPING PLAN PURSUANT TO ARTICLE
 SEVENTY-FIVE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION LAW. SUCH MEASURES  SHALL
 INCLUDE,  BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, MONIES SPENT BY THE UTILITY CORPORATION
 OR MUNICIPALITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF RENEWABLE POWER  GENERATION,  BATTERY
 STORAGE,  NEW TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION LINES, COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH
 INTERCONNECTION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS, ANY COSTS ASSOCIATED  WITH
 REBATES  OR  SUBSIDIES  FOR CUSTOMER-OWNED ELECTRIC HEATING, COOLING, OR
 COOKING APPLIANCES, OR ANY OTHER  PURPOSE  RELATED  TO  COMPLIANCE  WITH
 ARTICLE SEVENTY-FIVE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION LAW.
   2.  (A) NO LATER THAN ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE
 OF THIS SECTION, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ESTABLISH A FORMULA  THAT  ENABLES
 EVERY  UTILITY  CORPORATION OR MUNICIPALITY TO CALCULATE THE COST IMPACT
 ON EACH RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER'S BILL  ATTRIBUTED  TO  MEASURES  TAKEN  IN
 ACCORDANCE  WITH THE CLIMATE ACTION COUNCIL'S FINAL SCOPING PLAN. IN ANY
 INSTANCE WHERE COSTS ARE INCURRED BY A UTILITY OR MUNICIPALITY,  BENEFI-
 CIAL  FOR BOTH COMPLIANCE WITH ARTICLE SEVENTY-FIVE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09971-02-5

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