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NY A06285
Bill
Status
5/15/2025
Primary Sponsor
Steven Otis
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AI Summary
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Requires electric corporations' emergency response plans to include specific details on staffing, equipment, and performance schedules for restoring service after outages caused by storms, cyber attacks, or other emergencies
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Mandates the Public Service Commission establish a time-based restoration schedule with benchmarks measuring the percentage of customers restored within each 24-hour interval following an emergency event
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Requires the Commission's restoration benchmarks to account for different types of storm events when setting performance standards
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Amends existing emergency response plan requirements under Public Service Law Section 66, which already mandate plans address management staffing, customer communications, medical-needs customers, downed wire response, and mutual aid coordination
Legislative Description
Relates to the contents of emergency response plans required to be submitted to the public service commission by electric corporations; requires such plans to include details of staffing, equipment, and ability to perform toward certain standards; requires the public service commission to establish a time-based restoration schedule.
Last Action
ordered to third reading cal.155
1/7/2026