Bill Text: NY A07091 | 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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-2)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-04 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A07091 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07091-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7091

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2023
                                       ___________

        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 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