New York S 5515: 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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S05515 Summary:

BILL NOS05515 

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SAME ASSAME AS A07021

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SPONSORCANZONERI-FITZPATRICK

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COSPNSROBERACKER, RHOADS, WEIK

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §44-a, Pub Serv L

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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.

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BILL NOS05515 

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02/24/2025REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5515

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 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:

 1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section
 2 44-a to read as follows:
 3 § 44-a. Utility bills; cost impact of New York state climate action
 4 council's scoping plan. 1. No later than one year after the effective
 5 date of this section, every utility corporation or municipality shall
 6 ensure that bills for service to residential customers include a sepa-
 7 rate line item for the cost impact of measures taken in accordance with
 8 the climate action council's final scoping plan pursuant to article
 9 seventy-five of the environmental conservation law. Such measures shall
 10 include, but not be limited to, monies spent by the utility corporation
 11 or municipality for the purpose of renewable power generation, battery
 12 storage, new transmission and distribution lines, costs associated with
 13 interconnection of renewable energy projects, any costs associated with
 14 rebates or subsidies for customer-owned electric heating, cooling, or
 15 cooking appliances, or any other purpose related to compliance with
 16 article seventy-five of the environmental conservation law.
 17 2. (a) No later than one hundred eighty days after the effective date
 18 of this section, the department shall establish a formula that enables
 19 every utility corporation or municipality to calculate the cost impact
 20 on each residential customer's bill attributed to measures taken in
 21 accordance with the climate action council's final scoping plan. In any
 22 instance where costs are incurred by a utility or municipality, benefi-
 23 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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 1 conservation law and for general system reliability and safety for the
 2 provision of gas or electric service, such costs shall also be included
 3 in the formula provided that such costs cannot be reasonably decoupled.
 4 (b) The department shall update the formula on an annual basis and
 5 notify every utility corporation and municipality within thirty days of
 6 such update.
 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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