Implements the New York propane education and safety act; authorizes the creation of certain propane education programs; requires the creation of a New York propane education and safety council; enumerates the duties and purposes of the New York propane education and safety council.
Asm. Steve Otis
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Relates to the rates paid for net-metering; makes the rates paid by micro-combined heat and power or fuel cell customer-generators the same as other customer-generators.
Directs the public service commission to issue an order governing the equitable sharing of interconnection costs for distributed generation resources.
Authorizes a resident individual to deduct his New York itemized deduction in lieu of the New York standard deduction where his federal taxable income is not determined by itemizing deductions.
Relates to special funds for counties, cities, villages, towns, and schools; allows the creation of special funds; authorizes tax credits for contributions to special funds.
Amends the constitution to allow a person who will be 18 years old at the time of a presidential election to vote in the presidential primary election if he or she is 17 years of age at the time of the presidential primary election.
Requires forest management plans, subject to the approval of the department of environmental conservation, for certain lands subject to a conservation easement purchased by the state and forbids clearcutting on such lands without such forest management plan; increases the jurisdiction of the Adirondack park agency over clearcutting.
Requires power authority of the state of New York to file a report annually commencing March 31, 2020 with the governor, the comptroller and the chair of the assembly ways and means and the senate finance committees and the authority budget office, respectively, on its operations and transactions conforming, as far as feasible, with the uniform system of accounts required for electric corporations pursuant to the public service law.
Provides for the designation of geologically significant areas, territories and sites throughout the state, and for the establishment of a state geological trail.
Directs the New York city transit authority and the metropolitan transportation authority to report to the governor and the legislature on service reductions and eliminations.