Bill Text: NY A01469 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires electric vehicle charging stations to include at least one space that is large enough to accommodate wheelchair accessible electric vehicles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-05 - substituted by s787 [A01469 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01469-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1469

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Energy

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          electric  vehicle  charging  stations to include at least one space 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 amended by a chapter of the laws of  2024  amending  the  public
     3  authorities law relating to requiring electric vehicle charging stations
     4  and  electric  vehicle  capable parking spaces to accommodate wheelchair
     5  accessible electric vehicles, as proposed in legislative  bills  numbers
     6  S. 8979 and A. 7091, is amended to read as follows:
     7    9-a.  As  deemed  feasible  and  advisable by the trustees, to design,
     8  finance, develop, construct, install, lease, operate and maintain  elec-
     9  tric  vehicle  charging  stations  throughout  the  state for use by the
    10  public. Such electric vehicle charging stations shall  include  [spaces]
    11  at  least one space that [are] is large enough to accommodate wheelchair
    12  accessible electric vehicles, including but not  limited  to,  vans  and
    13  minivans.    The authority shall annually post on their website a report
    14  on those activities undertaken pursuant to this  subdivision,  including
    15  but  not  limited  to:  the  total  number  of electric vehicle charging
    16  stations in operation pursuant to such authorization, the  locations  of
    17  such  charging stations, and the total costs to the authority associated
    18  with such activities.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    20  manner  as a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the public authorities
    21  law relating to requiring electric vehicle charging stations  and  elec-
    22  tric vehicle capable parking spaces to accommodate wheelchair accessible
    23  electric  vehicles, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 8979 and
    24  A. 7091, takes effect.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02695-01-5