New York A 1453: Creates a citizen advisory panel

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A01453 Summary:

BILL NOA01453 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORBarclay (MS)

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSRDeStefano, Lemondes, Manktelow

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Add §175, Pub Serv L

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Creates a citizen advisory panel consisting of six permanent and three rotating members to prepare a report on any application for certificate of any major electric generating facilities.

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BILL NOA01453 

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01/09/2025referred to energy

01/07/2026referred to energy

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1453

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 9, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DeSTE-
 FANO, LEMONDES, MANKTELOW -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Energy

 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to creating a citi-
 zen advisory panel

 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
 2 175 to read as follows:
 3 § 175. Citizen advisory panel. 1. A citizen advisory panel is hereby
 4 established.
 5 2. a. The panel shall consist of six permanent and three rotating
 6 members appointed by the chair of the department of public service to
 7 four year terms as follows: one permanent member shall be a resident of
 8 Long Island; two permanent members shall be residents of the city of New
 9 York; three permanent members shall be residents of upstate New York;
 10 one rotating member shall be a resident of Long Island; one rotating
 11 member shall be a resident of New York city; and one rotating member
 12 shall be a resident of upstate New York. For the purposes of this
 13 section:
 14 i. "Long Island" means the counties of Nassau and Suffolk.
 15 ii. "New York city" means the counties of the Bronx, Kings, New York,
 16 Queens, and Richmond.
 17 iii. "Upstate New York" means all counties not included in subpara-
 18 graphs i or ii of this paragraph.
 19 b. Each member of the panel shall have been awarded a degree from an
 20 accredited four-year college or university or a graduate degree from
 21 such college or university or accredited graduate school and shall have
 22 had at least five years of experience in one or more of the fields of
 23 engineering, science, economics, or business.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02343-01-5

 A. 1453 2

 1 c. The members of the panel shall, by majority vote, select one of the
 2 permanent members to serve as the panel chairperson.
 3 d. Vacancies on the panel shall be filled by a majority vote of
 4 current members of the panel to serve out the remainder of the term.
 5 e. In addition to the requirements of the public officers law, no
 6 person shall be eligible to be an appointee to the panel who holds
 7 another state or local office. No member of the panel may retain or hold
 8 any official relation to, or any securities of an electric utility
 9 corporation operating in the state or proposed for operation in the
 10 state, any affiliate thereof or any other company, firm, partnership,
 11 corporation, association or joint-stock association that may appear
 12 before the panel, nor shall either of the appointees have been a direc-
 13 tor, officer or, within the previous ten years, an employee thereof.
 14 f. Each member of the panel shall receive their necessary expenses
 15 actually incurred in the discharge of their duties.
 16 g. Any member of the panel may be removed by the chair of the public
 17 service commission for cause after an opportunity to be heard.
 18 h. Except as otherwise provided by law, a majority of the panel shall
 19 constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business of the panel.
 20 3. The rotating member residing in the area where the facility is
 21 proposed to be located as defined in paragraph a of subdivision two of
 22 this section shall serve as the seventh member on the panel for all
 23 actions relating to that proposed facility.
 24 4. The board shall provide each