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NY A11018
Bill
Status
9/9/2020
Primary Sponsor
Fred Thiele
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AI Summary
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Amends Public Authorities Law Section 1020-s to authorize the Public Service Commission to investigate utility performance during declared disasters involving widespread power outages lasting 72 hours or more in the service territory.
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Allows the Public Service Commission to conduct evidentiary hearings and investigatory proceedings to review whether the utility authority or its service providers reasonably implemented their emergency response plan.
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Permits the Public Service Commission to deny recovery of service restoration costs if it finds the authority failed to reasonably implement its emergency response plan or if outages were materially longer due to such failure.
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Allows cost denial to be proportional to the degree and impact of the service outage caused by the authority's failure to implement its plan.
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Takes effect immediately upon enactment.
Legislative Description
Authorizes an investigation by the public service commission during a declared state of emergency to review the performance of the Long Island power authority and any of its service providers in restoring service or otherwise meeting the requirements of the emergency response plan during an emergency event.
Last Action
referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
9/9/2020