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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee&nbspVotes Floor&nbspVotes Memo Text LFIN Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript S10447 Summary: BILL NO S10447 &nbsp SAME AS SAME AS A11461

&nbsp SPONSOR COMRIE &nbsp COSPNSR &nbsp MLTSPNSR &nbsp Add §28, Pub Serv L &nbsp Provides deadlines for rate and non-rate cases before an administrative law judge or judges, the secretary to the public service commission and the public service commission.

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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

10447

IN SENATE

May 15, 2026 ___________

Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni- cations

AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to ensuring timely rulings on motions and petitions in rate and non-rate cases

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:

1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 2 28 to read as follows: 3 § 28. Pleadings practice. 1. For the purposes of this section, the 4 following terms shall have the following meanings: 5 (a) "Proceeding" shall mean any formal or informal matter, case, rule- 6 making, rate proceeding, generic proceeding, or any other action of the 7 commission or the department or any component of a proceeding that may 8 result in decisions by the commission or recommendations to the commis- 9 sion. Such term shall include evidentiary hearings conducted pursuant to 10 section sixty-six of this chapter. 11 (b) "Final responsive papers" shall mean a reply to a pleading, or 12 surreply if allowed by the presiding administrative law judge or judges, 13 secretary to the commission, or the commission, that is filed with the 14 secretary of the commission within the timeframe specified in the rules 15 and regulations of the department, or if no such rule covers the type of 16 pleading, reply, or surreply, then the time shall be thirty days. 17 (c) "Petition" shall mean a formal, written application to the commis- 18 sion requesting action on a certain matter including but not limited to 19 institution of a proceeding on a particular subject, adding a particular 20 subject to an ongoing proceeding if an administrative law judge has not 21 been assigned to preside over such proceeding, interlocutory review, or 22 seeking rehearing of a commission decision. 23 (d) "Interlocutory review" means a pleading to the commission request- 24 ing review of a ruling by administrative law judges or the secretary to 25 the commission.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15108-02-6

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1 (e) "Rehearing" means a petition asserting the commission committed an 2 error of law or fact or that new circumstances warrant a different 3 determination. 4 (f) "Motion" means an application made to the presiding administrative 5 law judge or judges, secretary to the commission, or the commission for 6 the purpose of obtaining a ruling or order directing some act to be done 7 in favor of the applicant. 8 2. Administrative law judge or judges presiding over rate proceedings 9 shall rule on motions within fifteen days after submission of final 10 responsive papers by the parties. 11 3. Administrative law judge or judges, the secretary to the commis- 12 sion, or the commission presiding over proceedings other than rate 13 proceedings shall rule on motions within thirty days after submission of 14 final responsive papers by the parties. 15 4. The commission shall rule on requests for interlocutory review of a 16 ruling by administrative law judges or by the secretary to the commis- 17 sion within ten days after submission of final responsive papers by the 18 parties. 19 5. The commission shall rule on requests for rehearing within forty- 20 five days after submission of final responsive papers by the parties. 21 6. The commission shall rule on petitions for institution of a 22 proceeding on a particular subject, or adding a particular subject to an 23 ongoing proceeding, if an administrative law judge has not been assigned 24 to preside over such proceeding, within sixty days after submission of 25 final responsive papers by the parties. 26 7. If none of the administrative law judges assigned to the proceed- 27 ing, or the secretary to the commission, rules within the timeframe set 28 forth in subdivision two or three of this section, whichever is applica- 29 ble, then the party making the motion may notify the secretary to the 30 commission in writing. Within five days of receiving such notice, the 31 commission shall, at its discretion, assign another administrative judge 32 to decide on the motion, direct the original administrative law judge, 33 or the secretary to the commission, to which the motion is directed to 34 decide the motion, or decide the motion itself. In any such case, the 35 ruling shall be made within ten days. Failure to issue a ruling within 36 the applicable timeframe shall constitute constructive granting of the 37 motion. 38 8. The commission shall be empowered to issue rules consistent with 39 this section, including identifying the pleadings that shall be submit- 40 ted by the parties, and when the pleading process is final such as to 41 trigger the mandates set forth in subdivisions two, three, four, five 42 and six of this section. 43 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 44 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 45 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 46 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 47 completed on or before such effective date.

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