Bill Text: NY S04934 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides for a state workforce fuel reduction and conservation program which will develop and assist in implementing strategies to reduce fuel consumption by the state's motor vehicle fleet and to reduce solo trips between work and home by state employees; requires reporting to the governor and legislature.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S04934 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04934-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4934

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the  "state  workforce
          fuel reduction and conservation act"

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

     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "state workforce fuel reduction and conservation act".
     3    §  2.  The  executive  law is amended by adding a new section 201-b to
     4  read as follows:
     5    § 201-b. State workforce  fuel  reduction  and  conservation  act.  1.
     6  There  shall  be  created  within the office of general services a state
     7  workforce fuel reduction and conservation program, which shall have  the
     8  purpose  of developing and assisting in the implementation of strategies
     9  to reduce gasoline consumption by the state's motor vehicular fleet, and
    10  to reduce gasoline consumption through solo motor vehicle trips  between
    11  home and the workplace by state employees and state contractors.
    12    2. The office of general services, in coordination with the governor's
    13  office  of employee relations and the office for technology, shall issue
    14  a report to the governor and  the  legislature  on  or  before  November
    15  fifteenth,  two  thousand  twenty-four, setting forth a specific plan to
    16  reduce the number of solo motor vehicle trips between home and the work-
    17  place by state employees and state contractors. Such plan shall include,
    18  at a minimum, proposals to promote the use of transportation other  than
    19  via  single  occupancy vehicles by state employees to and from the work-
    20  place, and while  at  the  workplace:  proposals  for  the  development,
    21  promotion  and  implementation of a solo trip reduction program designed
    22  to encourage state employees and state contractors to use an alternative
    23  mode of commuting such as car or van  pools,  mass  transit,  biking  or
    24  walking;  authorizing  state agencies and authorities to permit alterna-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06484-01-3

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     1  tive work  schedules  or  telecommuting  for  all  state  employees  and
     2  contractors where doing so would result in a reduction in home-workplace
     3  travel  without  decreasing employee efficiency; and a proposal to reim-
     4  burse state employees and contractors for mass transit costs where doing
     5  so results in a net reduction in solo motor vehicle trips.
     6    3. The office of general services shall review the size of the state's
     7  vehicular  fleet,  the  policies governing the use of such fleet and the
     8  actual use of such fleet, and shall issue to the governor and the legis-
     9  lature on or before November  fifteenth,  two  thousand  twenty-four,  a
    10  specific  plan  to reduce the use of such fleet in order to reduce gaso-
    11  line consumption.
    12    § 3. Each state agency covered by section 201-b of the executive  law,
    13  establishing  a  program to increase the average passenger occupancy per
    14  vehicle in commuting trips between home and the workplace, shall  report
    15  to  the  office of general services on the status of such program within
    16  one hundred eighty days of the effective date of this act,  and  on  the
    17  fifteenth day of January in each year thereafter.
    18    §  4.  Each  state agency that maintains its own vehicular fleet shall
    19  perform a fuel efficiency audit of such fleet  and  shall  provide  such
    20  audit  to  the office of general services within one hundred eighty days
    21  of the effective date of this act.
    22    § 5. The department  of  motor  vehicles  shall  develop  programs  to
    23  educate  the driving public on "smart driving," trip reduction and vehi-
    24  cle maintenance practices that are designed  to  maximize  vehicle  fuel
    25  efficiency.  The department shall issue a report to the governor and the
    26  legislature on or before  November  15,  2024  on  the  status  of  such
    27  program.
    28    § 6. Nothing in this act shall impair any agreements which may be made
    29  as  a  result of collective bargaining or other negotiations between the
    30  state and its affected employee organizations.
    31    § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.
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