S 9980 NY
Reduces electric corporations' response time for securing downed wires
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Summary
New York Senate Bill 9980 requires electric utilities to reduce response times for de-energizing and securing downed wires by amending the Public Service Law. The bill requires each utility to develop plans to promptly de-energize downed wires within two hours of receiving notification of their location from a municipal emergency responder. For non-emergency events, utilities must promptly secure downed wires within six hours. The bill requires utilities' plans to include communication procedures to notify emergency responders of expected time frames for securing wires. The bill takes effect 180 days after becoming law.
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Official abstract
Requires each utility to take appropriate safety precautions regarding electrical hazards, including developing plans to promptly de-energize downed wires within two hours of notification of the location of such downed wires from a municipal emergency responder and promptly secure such wires within six hours in the case of events that are not considered emergencies.
Sponsor (1)
- James Skoufis Democratic · primary
Action history (3)
- Apr 20, 2026 REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS · upper
- May 19, 2026 AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS · upper
- May 19, 2026 PRINT NUMBER 9980A · upper
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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee Votes Floor Votes Memo Text LFIN Chamber Video/Transcript S09980 Summary: BILL NO S09980A   SAME AS SAME AS A10763-A
  SPONSOR SKOUFIS   COSPNSR   MLTSPNSR   Amd §66, Pub Serv L   Requires each utility to take appropriate safety precautions regarding electrical hazards, including developing plans to promptly de-energize downed wires within two hours of notification of the location of such downed wires from a municipal emergency responder and promptly secure such wires within six hours in the case of events that are not considered emergencies.
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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________
9980--A
IN SENATE
April 20, 2026 ___________
Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni- cations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to reducing the response time for securing downed wires
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 66 of the public service law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 21-a to read as follows: 3 21-a. Require each utility to take appropriate safety precautions 4 regarding electrical hazards, including developing plans to prompt- 5 ly de-energize downed wires within two hours of notification of the 6 location of such downed wires from a municipal emergency responder and 7 promptly secure such wires within six hours in the case of events that 8 are not considered emergencies pursuant to subdivision twenty-one of 9 this section. Such plans developed by a utility pursuant to this section 10 shall identify communication procedures to notify emergency responders 11 of expected time frames for securing wires. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 13 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15259-03-6
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