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A00491 Summary:

BILL NOA00491A

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SAME ASSAME AS S00098-A

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SPONSORWoerner

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COSPNSRGriffin, Levenberg, McDonald

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §66-x, Pub Serv L

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Requires electric corporations build make-ready infrastructure to facilitate the charging of electric public serving fleet vehicles.

Go to top A00491 Actions:

BILL NOA00491A

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01/08/2025referred to energy

05/29/2025amend (t) and recommit to energy

05/29/2025print number 491a

01/07/2026referred to energy

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 491--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER, GRIFFIN -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Energy -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
 reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to building make-
 ready electrical infrastructure for the charging of electric vehicles
 for public serving fleet vehicles

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section
 2 66-x to read as follows:
 3 § 66-x. Make-ready electrical infrastructure. 1. Legislative intent
 4 and purpose. It is the intent and purpose of this section to implement
 5 cost effective and unified treatment by electric corporations of elec-
 6 trical distribution infrastructure, and certain customer-owned make-
 7 ready infrastructure, needed to charge electric public serving fleet
 8 vehicles; and provide for certain costs of such infrastructure to be
 9 included in electric corporations' rate bases and generally recovered
 10 through rates or surcharges, instead of directly from the public serving
 11 fleet customers served by such infrastructure. Nothing in this section
 12 shall modify any obligation of an electric corporation to provide a full
 13 and accurate accounting of costs related to electrical distribution
 14 infrastructure needed to charge electric vehicles.
 15 2. Definitions. For the purposes of this section the following terms
 16 shall have the following meanings:
 17 (a) "Electrical distribution infrastructure" means any utility facili-
 18 ties used to distribute electric service to customers, and includes
 19 poles, vaults, service drops, transformers, mounting pads, trenching,
 20 conduit, wire, cable, meters, other equipment as necessary, and associ-
 21 ated engineering and civil construction work.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00265-03-5

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 1 (b) "Utility-owned make-ready costs" means any capital investment in
 2 electrical distribution infrastructure needed to connect and serve a new
 3 electric vehicle charger, including step down transformers, overhead
 4 service lines, and utility meters.
 5 (c) "Customer-owned make-ready costs" means any capital investment in
 6 equipment or infrastructure beyond the utility service point necessary
 7 to make a site ready to accept an electric vehicle charger, including
 8 conductors, trenching, and panels.
 9 (d) "Disadvantaged community" means a community defined as a disadvan-
 10 taged community under article seventy-five of the environmental conser-
 11 vation law.
 12 (e) "Public serving fleet" means a fleet of vehicles owned, leased, or
 13 contracted by the state, any municipality, public authority or school
 14 district.
 15 3. Reasonable efforts required. Electric corporations shall make
 16 reasonable efforts to ensure that any infrastructure built pursuant to
 17 this section is efficiently sized and operated. Such efforts may
 18 include, but not be limited to, considering customers' reasonably fore-
 19 seeable load management activities and deployments of distributed energy
 20 resources.
 21 4. Application. No later than sixty days after the effective date of
 22 this section, all electric corporations shall file an application with
 23 the commission to establish a tariff that shall replace the line exten-