Bill Text: NY A07404 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the New York state energy research and development authority to prepare a report on the feasibility, costs and benefits of establishing a renewable energy laboratory; requires such report to examine partnerships with businesses and educational institutions; determine whether a New York renewable energy laboratory would facilitate the development of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies and practices, advance related science and engineering, create jobs, promote economic development and manufacturing, and transfer knowledge and innovations to address the state's energy and environmental goals; and consider how such laboratory may achieve the goal of involving minority students, scientists, engineers and minority and women owned business enterprises in its programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-07-21 - signed chap.396 [A07404 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07404-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7404--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 7, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Energy -- recommitted to the Committee on Energy in accordance with
          Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to authorize the New York state energy research  and  development
          authority  to  prepare  a  report  on  the establishment of a New York
          renewable energy laboratory

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

     1    Section  1.    (a)  The New York state energy research and development
     2  authority shall prepare a report on the feasibility, costs and  benefits
     3  of establishing a renewable energy laboratory. The report, at a minimum,
     4  will:    (i)  examine the most effective methods to develop partnerships
     5  with businesses and educational  institutions  such  as  CUNY  and  SUNY
     6  campuses  to  support  the  creation of a renewable energy laboratory to
     7  encourage ongoing  linkages  between  training,  research,  development,
     8  demonstration  and technology transfer resources; (ii) determine whether
     9  such a laboratory would facilitate the development of  renewable  energy
    10  and  energy  efficiency  technologies  and  practices,  advanced related
    11  science and engineering, create jobs, promote economic  development  and
    12  manufacturing,   and   transfer  knowledge  and  innovations,  including
    13  advancements in renewable energy systems as defined in section  66-p  of
    14  the  public service law, smart grids and battery storage; (iii) consider
    15  how a renewable energy laboratory may  achieve  the  goal  of  involving
    16  minority  students,  scientists,  engineers and minority and women owned
    17  business enterprises in its programs.
    18    (b) The authority shall submit the final report to the  governor,  the
    19  temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly within
    20  one year of the effective date of this act.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05616-03-2