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S08540 Summary:

BILL NOS08540A

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SAME ASSAME AS A09039-B

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SPONSORGONZALEZ

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COSPNSRBROUK, FAHY, GOUNARDES, KRUEGER, SCARCELLA-SPANTON, STAVISKY

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §65, Pub Serv L

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Establishes the "accountability of costs for data centers act"; requires each electric corporation, gas corporation and municipality to establish an independent classification of service for large energy use facilities that is separate and distinct from other classifications of service; authorizes the department of public service to develop financial surety requirements.

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BILL NOS08540A

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10/22/2025REFERRED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

05/29/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

05/29/2026PRINT NUMBER 8540A

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8540--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 October 22, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. GONZALEZ, BROUK, FAHY, GOUNARDES, KRUEGER, STAVISKY
 -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
 the Committee on Rules -- recommitted to the Committee on Energy and
 Telecommunications in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- commit-
 tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
 mitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to enacting the
 "accountability of costs for data centers act"

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

 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "account-
 2 ability of costs for data centers act" or the "AC/DC act".
 3 § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 65 of the public service law, as amended
 4 by chapter 134 of the laws of 1921, is amended to read as follows:
 5 5. (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be taken to prohibit a gas corpo-
 6 ration or [electrical] electric corporation from establishing classi-
 7 fications of service based upon the quantity used, the time when used,
 8 the purpose for which used, the duration of use or upon any other
 9 reasonable consideration, and providing schedules of just and reasonable
 10 graduated rates applicable thereto. No such classification, schedule,
 11 rate or charge shall be lawful unless it shall be filed with and
 12 approved by the commission, and every such classification, rate or
 13 charge shall be subject to change, alteration and modification by the
 14 commission.
 15 (b) (i) The commission shall require each electric corporation, gas
 16 corporation, and municipality to establish, and file with the commission
 17 for approval or modification, an independent classification of service
 18 for large energy use facilities that is separate and distinct from other
 19 classifications of service. The commission shall also require each elec-
 20 tric corporation, gas corporation, and municipality to file updates, if
 21 applicable, to existing classifications of service to exclude large

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13019-06-6

 S. 8540--A 2

 1 energy use facilities and to update any other filings, documents, or
 2 components thereof necessary to effectuate the reclassification of large
 3 energy use facilities. Each such service classification for large energy
 4 use facilities shall at a minimum, in a manner that is just and reason-
 5 able, establish a rate, charge, or schedule of rates, and additional
 6 terms of service, to:
 7 (A) assign the costs incurred by the electric corporation, gas corpo-
 8 ration, or municipality to serve large energy use facilities, including,
 9 but not limited to, the costs of any infrastructure upgrades, improve-
 10 ments, or additions and operational costs, necessary to facilitate and
 11 maintain service to such facilities, entirely among such classification;
 12 (B) assign all costs related to the recovery of any rate of return
 13 attributable to large energy use facilities entirely among such classi-
 14 fication; and
 15 (C) mitigate risks and impacts t