Bill Text: NY A08251 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to establishing the SUNY excess building asset inventory and repurposing act and conducting a study relating to repurposing or demolishing excess buildings in the state university of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-07 - held for consideration in higher education [A08251 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08251-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8251

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 15, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. GRAY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Higher Education

        AN ACT amending the education law, in relation to establishing the "SUNY
          excess building asset inventory and  repurposing  act";  conducting  a
          study relating to excess building assets; and providing for the repeal
          of certain provisions upon expiration thereof

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

     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "SUNY excess building asset inventory and repurposing act".
     3    §  2.  Section  370  of  the  education law is amended by adding a new
     4  subdivision 15 to read as follows:
     5    15. "Excess building assets" shall mean any  buildings  or  structures
     6  owned  by  the state university of New York that are not currently being
     7  used for academic, administrative, or residential purposes.
     8    § 3. Section 373 of the education law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     9  subdivision 20 to read as follows:
    10    20.  The fund shall conduct an inventory of all excess building assets
    11  that is to be completed no later than one year after the effective  date
    12  of  this  subdivision,  and  annually  thereafter.  Such inventory shall
    13  contain the following information for each excess building asset:
    14    (a) location;
    15    (b) size;
    16    (c) type, including but not  limited  to,  residential,  academic,  or
    17  administrative;
    18    (d) current condition; and
    19    (e) past use.
    20    §  4. 1. Following an inventory of all excess building assets pursuant
    21  to subdivision twenty of section  three  hundred  seventy-three  of  the
    22  education law, the state university of New York shall conduct a study to
    23  be  completed  no  later than two years after the effective date of this

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  section which shall include but not be limited to the following informa-
     2  tion:
     3    (a)  the effect of repurposing excess building assets, and such repur-
     4  posing's potential to provide cost relief to institutions;
     5    (b) the financial feasibility of such repurposing;
     6    (c) proposals for potential uses of excess building  assets  including
     7  potential  demolition, if necessary and the environmental impact of such
     8  demolitions; and
     9    (d) the potential cost savings from  repurposing  or  demolition,  and
    10  potential sources of funding for such repurposing or demolition.
    11    2.  The  state  university shall provide a report to the governor, the
    12  temporary president of the senate, the minority leader  of  the  senate,
    13  the  speaker  of  the  assembly, and the minority leader of the assembly
    14  upon the completion  of  the  inventory  and  study.  The  report  shall
    15  include, but not be limited to, the findings of the inventory and study,
    16  as  well as recommendations for legislative or administrative actions to
    17  address the excess building assets.
    18    § 5. Severability. If any clause,  sentence,  paragraph,  subdivision,
    19  section  or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent
    20  jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,  impair,  or
    21  invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation
    22  to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section or part thereof
    23  directly  involved  in the controversy in which such judgment shall have
    24  been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of the legislature
    25  that this act would have been enacted even if  such  invalid  provisions
    26  had not been included herein.
    27    §  6.  This  act shall take effect immediately; provided, however that
    28  the provisions of section four of this  act  shall  expire  three  years
    29  after such date when upon such date the provisions of such section shall
    30  be deemed repealed.