Bill Text: NY A03118 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "electric super highway act of 2019", requiring alternative fuels to be available for public use along the New York state thruway after November 1, 2019 and providing each recommended alternative fuel at least every one hundred twenty miles on both sides of the thruway; defines "alternative fuel".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to energy [A03118 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03118-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3118
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 28, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. ORTIZ, WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Energy
        AN ACT to amend the energy  law  and  the  public  authorities  law,  in
          relation  to  the availability of alternative fuels along the New York
          state thruway
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "electric
     2  super highway act of 2019".
     3    § 2. Section 1-103 of the energy law is amended by adding a new subdi-
     4  vision 14 to read as follows:
     5    14. "Alternative fuel" shall  mean  ethanol,  methanol,  natural  gas,
     6  propane,  electricity  (including electricity from solar energy), hydro-
     7  gen, and any other fuel identified which is substantially  not  petrole-
     8  um-based,  which  is  consistent with the goals of protecting the safety
     9  and health of the public and minimizing emissions of air pollutants, and
    10  which  is  consistent  with  any  applicable  federal  alternative  fuel
    11  requirements.
    12    §  3.  The energy law is amended by adding a new section 5-129 to read
    13  as follows:
    14    § 5-129. Alternative fuels.   State energy  research  and  development
    15  authority shall provide the New York state thruway authority with a list
    16  of the most feasible alternative fuels, which shall number no fewer than
    17  three,  and  assist  the  authority  in implementing the requirements of
    18  section three hundred fifty-four of the public authorities law.
    19    § 4. Subdivision 10 of section 354 of the public authorities  law,  as
    20  amended  by  section  2 of part TT of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016, is
    21  amended to read as follows:
    22    10. To construct, reconstruct or improve on or along  the  thruway  in
    23  the  manner  herein  provided,  suitable  facilities  for  gas stations,
    24  restaurants, and other facilities for the public, or to lease the  right
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  to  construct,  reconstruct or improve and operate such facilities; such
     2  facilities shall be publicly offered for leasing for operation,  or  the
     3  right  to  construct, reconstruct or improve and operate such facilities
     4  shall  be publicly offered under rules and regulations to be established
     5  by the authority, provided, however, that lessees operating such facili-
     6  ties at the time this act becomes effective, may reconstruct or  improve
     7  them or may construct additional like facilities, in the manner and upon
     8  such  terms  and  conditions  as the board shall determine; and provided
     9  further, however, that each such facility which contains or consists  of
    10  a  gas  station  shall, beginning November first, two thousand nineteen,
    11  include a facility for selling to the public  an  alternative  fuel,  as
    12  defined  in  section  1-103  of the energy law and each alternative fuel
    13  recommended to the authority by the New York state energy  research  and
    14  development  authority pursuant to section 5-129 of the energy law shall
    15  be made available at intervals of no more than one hundred twenty  miles
    16  on each side of the thruway;
    17    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.