S5518 • 2025

Makes all costs and expenses of the department of public service and public service commission subject to appropriation by the legislature; repealer

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Sponsor: Jake Ashby
Last action: 2026-05-06
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Makes all costs and expenses of the department of public service and public service commission subject to appropriation by the legislature; repealer

Makes all costs and expenses of the department of public service and public service commission subject to appropriation by the legislature; repealer Makes all costs and expenses of the department of public service and public service commission subject to appropriation by the legislature on the certification of the chair of the department and upon the audit and warrant of the comptroller.

What This Bill Does

Makes all costs and expenses of the department of public service and public service commission subject to appropriation by the legislature; repealer Makes all costs and expenses of the department of public service and public service commission subject to appropriation by the legislature on the certification of the chair of the department and upon the audit and warrant of the comptroller.

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Bill History

2026-05-06 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION
2026-03-06 Senate
NOTICE OF COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION - REQUESTED
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
2025-02-24 Senate
REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Official Summary Text

Makes all costs and expenses of the department of public service and public service commission subject to appropriation by the legislature; repealer
Makes all costs and expenses of the department of public service and public service commission subject to appropriation by the legislature on the certification of the chair of the department and upon the audit and warrant of the comptroller.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          5518

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    February 24, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  ASHBY  -- 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 making all costs
          and expenses of the department of public service  and  public  service
          commission  subject to appropriation by the legislature; and to repeal
          certain provisions of section 18-a  of  the  public  service  law,  in
          relation thereto

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. The section heading and subdivision 1 of  section  18-a  of
     2  the public service law, as amended by section 2 of part NN of chapter 59
     3  of the laws of 2009, are amended to read as follows:
     4    Costs  and  expenses of the commission and department [and the assess-
     5  ment of such costs and expenses. 1].  All  costs  and  expenses  of  the
     6  department and commission shall be paid pursuant to appropriation BY THE
     7  LEGISLATURE  on the certification of the [chairman] CHAIR of the depart-
     8  ment and upon the audit and warrant of the comptroller. [The state trea-
     9  sury shall be reimbursed therefore by payments to be made  thereto  from
    10  all  moneys  collected pursuant to this chapter. The total of such costs
    11  and expenses shall be borne by the public utility  companies  (including
    12  for  the  purposes  of  this  section  municipalities other than munici-
    13  palities as defined in section eighty-nine-l of  this  chapter),  corpo-
    14  rations  (including  the  power authority of the state of New York), and
    15  persons subject to the commission's regulation, to be  assessed  in  the
    16  manner  provided in subdivisions two, three and four of this section and
    17  section two hundred seventeen of this chapter.]
    18    § 2. Subdivisions 1-a, 2, 3, 4, 4-a, 4-b and 5 of section 18-a of  the
    19  public service law are REPEALED.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect January 1, 2026.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06172-01-5