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S1539-2011 Actions

• Apr 17, 2012: referred to codes
• Apr 17, 2012: DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
• Apr 17, 2012: PASSED SENATE
• Mar 22, 2012: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• Mar 21, 2012: 2ND REPORT CAL.
• Mar 20, 2012: 1ST REPORT CAL.415
• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO CODES
• Jun 24, 2011: COMMITTED TO RULES
• Jun 14, 2011: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• Jun 13, 2011: 2ND REPORT CAL.
• Jun 7, 2011: 1ST REPORT CAL.1065
• Jan 10, 2011: REFERRED TO CODES

S1539-2011 Meetings

Codes: Mar 20, 2012, Codes: Jun 7, 2011

S1539-2011 Calendars

Active List: Apr 17, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Mar 21, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Mar 22, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Mar 26, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Mar 27, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Mar 28, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Mar 29, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Mar 30, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Apr 17, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Jun 13, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Jun 14, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Jun 15, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Jun 16, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Jun 17, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Jun 21, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Jun 22, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Jun 23, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Jun 24, 2011

S1539-2011 Votes

S1539-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S1539

TITLE  OF BILL:   An act to amend the public service law, in relation to
requiring utility corporations and entities to submit an  annual  report
to the public service commission, the legislature, the executive and the
chairman  of  the  state energy planning board detailing energy metering
production

PURPOSE:  In order to assess the landscape of current  renewable  energy
use in New York State, this bill requires utility corporations and ener-
gy  providing  entities  to  annually  report to policy makers the exact
types, locations, and energy outputs of net metered energy  produced  in
their service territories.

SUMMARY  OF  PROVISIONS:   This legislation adds a new section, 66-n, to
the public service law.

JUSTIFICATION:  In order for policy makers to guide and enhance the  use
of  renewable  resources in New York State, we must first understand and
analyze the states current use of on-site generation. This bill requires
utilities and energy providing entities to report annually to the legis-
lature and the Public Service Commission detailing the net energy meter-
ing and interconnection between the utility and customer-generators, the
type of on-site generators (renewable sources), and the  net  amount  of
energy they produce.

Currently,  there is no system of reporting in place to monitor the rate
of renewable installation, the interconnection  of  these  systems  with
their  provider's  grids, and the amount of power being sold back to the
utility corporations and distributed  within  their  service  territory.
This bill would require such reporting.

Any  attempt  to  develop  comprehensive renewable energy policy without
first getting a realistic analysis of New York States' current renewable
portfolio is likely to lead to scattershot, uninformed and myopic  deci-
sions.

New  York State has the opportunity and the obligation to lead the coun-
try in the shift toward use of  renewable  resources.  This  bill  is  a
requisite  first  step  toward  the  development of sound and calculated
government policy designed to achieve that end.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:   2011-2012: Referred to  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
cations;  Amended and recommitted to Energy and Telecommunications print
number 1765A.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:  None to the state.

EFFECTIVE DATE:  This act shall take effect immediately.

S1539-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         1539
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 January 10, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  SKELOS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to sentencing  of  persistent
 violent felony offenders; and to repeal subdivision 3 of section 70.08
 of such law relating to minimum periods of imprisonment for persistent
 violent felony offenders
 

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

 

Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 70.00 of the penal law, as amended
 by chapter 482 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:

 5.  Life  imprisonment  without  parole.  Notwithstanding  any   other
 provision  of  law,  a  defendant sentenced to life imprisonment without
 parole shall not  be  or  become  eligible  for  parole  or  conditional
 release.  For  purposes of commitment and custody, other than parole and
 conditional release, such sentence shall be deemed to be  an  indetermi
 nate  sentence.  A defendant may be sentenced to life imprisonment with
 out parole, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROCEDURES PROVIDED BY LAW FOR IMPOS
 ING SUCH SENTENCE, EITHER: (A) upon conviction for the crime  of  murder
 in the first degree as defined in section 125.27 of this chapter [and in
 accordance  with  the procedures provided by law for imposing a sentence
 for such crime]; (B) UPON CONVICTION OF  A  VIOLENT  FELONY  OFFENSE  AS
 DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION  ONE OF SECTION 70.02 OF THIS ARTICLE WHEN SUCH
 DEFENDANT HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN SUBJECTED TO TWO OR MORE PREDICATE VIOLENT
 FELONY CONVICTIONS AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (B)  OF  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF
 SECTION  70.04  OF  THIS  ARTICLE. A defendant must be sentenced to life
 imprisonment without parole upon conviction for the crime  of  terrorism
 as  defined  in  section  490.25  of  this  chapter, where the specified
 offense the defendant committed is a class  A-I  felony;  the  crime  of
 criminal  possession  of  a  chemical weapon or biological weapon in the
 first degree as defined in section 490.45 of this chapter; or the  crime
 of  criminal  use of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the first
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06193-01-1
 
       S. 1539                             2
 degree as defined  in  section  490.55  of  this  chapter;  OR  IS  ALSO
 CONVICTED  OF  A VIOLENT FELONY OFFENSE AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF
 SECTION 70.02 OF THIS ARTICLE WHEN SUCH DEFENDANT  HAS  PREVIOUSLY  BEEN
 SUBJECTED TO TWO OR MORE PREDICATE VIOLENT FELONY CONVICTIONS AS DEFINED
 IN  PARAGRAPH  (B)  OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION 70.04 OF THIS ARTICLE;
 provided, however, that nothing in this subdivision  shall  preclude  or
 prevent  a sentence of death when the defendant is also convicted of the
 crime of murder in the first degree as defined in section 125.27 of this
 chapter.  A defendant must be sentenced  to  life  imprisonment  without
 parole  upon  conviction for the crime of murder in the second degree as
 defined in subdivision five of section 125.25 of this chapter or for the
 crime of aggravated murder as defined  in  subdivision  one  of  section
 125.26  of  this chapter. A defendant may be sentenced to life imprison
 ment without parole upon conviction for the crime of  aggravated  murder
 as defined in subdivision two of section 125.26 of this chapter.
 

S  2.  Subdivision  2  of  section 70.08 of the penal law, as added by
 chapter 481 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:

 2. Authorized sentence. When the court  has  found,  pursuant  to  the
 provisions  of the criminal procedure law, that a person is a persistent
 violent felony offender the court must impose [an indeterminate sentence
 of imprisonment, the maximum term of which shall be  life  imprisonment.
 The  minimum  period  of  imprisonment  under  such  sentence must be in
 accordance with subdivision three of this section] A  SENTENCE  OF  LIFE
 IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT PAROLE PURSUANT TO SECTION 70.00 OF THIS ARTICLE.
 

S 3. Subdivision 3 of section 70.08 of the penal law is REPEALED.
 

S 4. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

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