New York S 3712: Requires utilities to charge not-for-profit organized sports programs for youth residential rates

Status: REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (as of 2026-01-07)

State: New York · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: S 3712

Sponsors: Andrew J. Lanza

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S03712 Summary:

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Amd §76, Pub Serv L

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Requires gas and electric corporations to charge not-for-profit organized sports programs for youth residential rates for utilities.

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01/29/2025REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3712

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 29, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 utility rates
 charged to not-for-profit organized sports programs for youth

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

 1 Section 1. Section 76 of the public service law, as amended by chapter
 2 82 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 76. Rates charged veteran organizations, religious bodies [and],
 4 community residences and not-for-profit organized sports programs for
 5 youth. No gas corporation, electric corporation or municipality shall,
 6 directly or indirectly, charge, demand, collect or receive from any post
 7 or hall owned or leased by a not-for-profit corporation that is a veter-
 8 ans' organization, or corporation or association organized and conducted
 9 in good faith for religious purposes, including the operation by such
 10 corporation or association of a school, notwithstanding that secular
 11 subjects are taught at such school, or from a community residence as
 12 defined in subdivision twenty-eight, twenty-eight-a or twenty-eight-b of
 13 section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law, provided, however, that such
 14 residence shall be operated by a not-for-profit corporation and if
 15 supervisory staff is on site on a twenty-four hour per day basis, that
 16 the residence provides living accommodations for fourteen or fewer resi-
 17 dents, or from a not-for-profit organized sports program for youth, a
 18 rate, regardless of the type of service offered, for any gas or electric
 19 service utilized exclusively in connection with such [veteran] veterans'
 20 organization or for such religious purposes or utilized exclusively at
 21 such community residence or used by a not-for-profit organized sports
 22 program for youth greater than the rates or charges charged, demanded,
 23 collected or received by such gas corporation, electric corporation or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05537-01-5

 S. 3712 2

 1 municipality from domestic consumers receiving single-phase service
 2 within the same village, town or municipality.
 3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 4 have become a law.

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