Assembly Bill A5251

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Limits rates identified and deposits required by electricity redistributors

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A5251 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Energy
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 30-B §§641 - 649-a, Gen Bus L; add §5-a, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A5410
2011-2012: A5608
2015-2016: A4324

2013-A5251 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Regulates the cost of submetered electricity to nonresidential tenants; establishes tenant remedies in cases of violations; requires electricity redistributors to identify the rate or the basis of the charge for electricity sold to non-residential tenants, as well as the terms under which the method of calculation for such electricity charges may be subject to change.

2013-A5251 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  5251

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 21, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. BRENNAN, CLARK, GOTTFRIED, ORTIZ, CASTRO, STEVEN-
  SON,  GIBSON  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK, JACOBS, MAISEL,
  MILLMAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Energy

AN ACT to amend the general business law and the public service law,  in
  relation  to  limiting rates identified and deposits required by elec-
  tricity redistributors

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

  Section 1. Legislative findings and declaration of purpose. The legis-
lature hereby finds and declares:
  (a) There is a significant number of landlords in New York that redis-
tribute  electricity  purchased  from a utility or other person to their
non-residential tenants. For example, in nineteen  hundred  eighty-eight
approximately  twenty-six  percent  of commercial/industrial electricity
sales of Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. were to landlords
who provided electricity to their  non-residential  tenants.  The  rates
charged  by those landlords, or "electricity redistributors", to non-re-
sidential tenants and the manner in which such rates are charged are not
currently regulated by the public service commission. In the absence  of
regulation,  some landlords in New York resell electricity to their non-
residential tenants  at  an  excessive  profit,  and  fail  to  disclose
adequately  the  rate or the basis of the charge for electricity and the
terms under which such charge may be subject to change.
  (b) Such practices, and the resulting perception of  high  or  sharply
rising  energy  costs, discourage businesses from entering and remaining
in New York. Thus, there is a need to  protect  non-residential  tenants
from  such practices. This protection can best be accomplished by limit-
ing the rates identified and deposits required by electricity redistrib-
utors, and requiring electricity redistributors to  disclose  fully  and
clearly  to  a  non-residential  tenant  the  tenant's charges and costs
relating to use of electricity in the tenant's premises.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09139-01-3
              

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