A 2470: 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.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2470 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 17, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BENDETT -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions 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 Subdivisions 1-a, 2, 3, 4, 4-a, 4-b and 5 of section 18-a of the 19 public service law are REPEALED. 20 § 3.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