Bill Text: NY A02083 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires the state install alternative energy infrastructure on the roofs of all state facilities where practicable or on state owned property adjacent to building.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-16 - held for consideration in governmental operations [A02083 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02083-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          2083
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations
        AN  ACT  to amend the public buildings law, in relation to requiring the
          state install alternative energy infrastructure on the  roofs  of  all
          state facilities where practicable or on state owned property adjacent
          to building
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The section heading and subdivision 1 of section 83 of  the
     2  public  buildings  law, as added by chapter 380 of the laws of 2009, are
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    Agency  green   building   and   alternative   energy   infrastructure
     5  construction  requirements. 1. (a) The construction of new buildings and
     6  the substantial renovation of existing buildings shall comply with  such
     7  green construction requirements and procedures as shall have been estab-
     8  lished  by the office in regulations pursuant to subdivision two of this
     9  section.
    10    (b) All state owned buildings shall comply with the alternative energy
    11  infrastructure standards  and  regulations  promulgated  by  the  office
    12  pursuant  to  subdivision  two of this section. Such standards and regu-
    13  lations shall require the use of methods including, but not  be  limited
    14  to,  installing  alternative  energy infrastructure where practicable on
    15  the roofs of all state owned buildings or, where the roof of a  building
    16  is not practicable, state owned property adjacent to the building.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02986-01-9
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