Bill Text: NY S08979 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires electric vehicle charging stations and electric vehicle capable parking spaces to have handicap accessible spaces that are large enough to accommodate such wheelchair accessible electric vehicles, including but not limited to, vans and minivans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-13 - ADVANCED TO THIRD READING [S08979 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08979-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8979

                    IN SENATE

                                      April 4, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen. PERSAUD -- 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 authorities law, in relation to requiring
          electric vehicle charging stations and electric vehicle capable  park-
          ing spaces to accommodate wheelchair accessible electric vehicles

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 9-a of section 1005 of the  public  authorities
     2  law, as added by section 1 of part KK of chapter 58 of the laws of 2019,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    9-a.  As  deemed  feasible  and  advisable by the trustees, to design,
     5  finance, develop, construct, install, lease, operate and maintain  elec-
     6  tric  vehicle  charging  stations  throughout  the  state for use by the
     7  public. Such electric vehicle charging  stations  shall  include  spaces
     8  that  are  large  enough  to  accommodate wheelchair accessible electric
     9  vehicles, including but not limited to, vans and minivans. The authority
    10  shall annually post on their website a report on those activities under-
    11  taken pursuant to this subdivision, including but not  limited  to:  the
    12  total number of electric vehicle charging stations in operation pursuant
    13  to  such authorization, the locations of such charging stations, and the
    14  total costs to the authority associated with such activities.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    16  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11166-01-3