Provides that in the absence of a currently valid municipal franchise, the public service commission may issue temporary operating authority for a cable television system which does not have a currently valid municipal franchise only with the written consent of the municipality. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Requires revenue from the sale of prepaid telephone calling cards to be deposited in an escrow account; provides that such revenue may only be withdrawn to the extent the holders of such cards use the authorized telephone service. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Provides that no utility may discontinue residential utility service during cold weather periods to a premises where an owner of the premises has notified the utility that the customer of record is a tenant, or where the address of the customer of record differs from the address of the premises being served, unless a five day notice of impending termination has been mailed to the owner and occupant or occupants of such premises. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Creates a nine member privacy task force within the state office for technology to conduct ongoing review of state and local laws, regulations and practices with respect to the compilation, protection and dissemination of "personal information"; provides for composition of the task force and for annual reports to the governor and the legislature. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Prohibits exclusive multichannel video programming providers from entering into exclusive marketing agreements with the owner or manager of a residential multiple dwelling unit. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Provides for the net energy metering of solar, wind, fuel cell and farm waste electric generating systems for both residential and business customers; increases the rated capacity of eligible solar electric generating equipment to 2,000 kilowatts; provides for the metering and fees for such electric generating equipment. / Sponsor: BALL Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Requires gas and electric corporations to charge not-for-profit organized sports programs for youth residential rates for utilities. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Provides that, prior to granting a certificate for the construction of an electric transmission line facility, the public service commission must find that the facility conforms to the most recent state energy plan and consider whether approval of the facility would cause adverse impacts on the state's environmental quality due to electric generation. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Requires utility companies to include on their bills notice of any and all public hearings concerning rate hikes. / Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Authorizes the city of New Rochelle to impose certain taxes on utilities. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Amends the public service law, in relation to requiring the NYISO to increase end use consumer representation. / Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Provides that the New York power authority shall have jurisdiction over any municipal corporation that owns and operates an electric distribution system and distributes any power from the authority. / Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Relates to modifying the current regulatory framework for telephone corporations and cable television companies. / Sponsor: ALESI Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Authorizes virtual net energy metering; provides for the ownership and operation of energy generating equipment by municipalities and groups of farmers and businesses for their joint benefit; provides for the net energy metering of the electricity used by the members of such entities. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Authorizes utility corporations, telegraph and telephone corporations, and cable television corporations to provide notice of bills to third parties at the request of the customer. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Relates to refuge facilities; defines terms; exempts any refuge facility that is registered with the state emergency management office from payment of any exit fee or any lost revenue resultant from the installation and operation of cogeneration equipment at the refuge facility; provides financial assistance for the installation of cogeneration technologies for the purpose of creating and maintaining refuge facilities pursuant to article twenty-two of the energy law. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Authorizes the public service commission, upon application by a municipality, to order costs for public fire protection to be charged to all customer classes located in such municipality; all costs allocated to the public fire protection function of a water-works corporation including costs associated with fire hydrants such as capital costs, maintenance repair and operating expenses, rental and access charges are eligible to be apportioned to customers in a municipality. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Relates to residential rental buildings and submetering; requires applicants and building owners currently submetering to file with public service commission and the appropriate municipality. / Sponsor: MARCELLINO Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Prohibits the imposition of any charge or fee on the telephone bill of a consumer when such fee or charge is imposed by a third party, unless the consumer explicitly agrees to the nature and amount of such fee or charge; makes the unauthorized imposition of such a fee void and unenforceable; directs the public service commission to enforce such provisions. / Sponsor: FLANAGAN Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Authorizes mayor or chief executive officer of any city having a population of one million or more persons to establish a utility facility coordinating committee to develop and implement procedures under which each utility corporation and corporation authorized to install and lease underground conduit facilities providing service in the city shall cooperate with such city in developing plans for the removal, protection or replacement of any facilities of such corporation which are to be disturbed or affected by the laying out, establishment, construction, maintenance, operation, alteration or discontinuance of any street, sewer and drainage system, or water supply system in such city, and cooperate with such city where removal, protection or replacement of such facilities is undertaken; details minimum cooperative procedures to be undertaken in such cases. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS