Bill Text: NY A08271 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that any rules or regulations promulgated by the department of environmental conservation pursuant to the climate action fund are subject to a vote of the legislature and must be approved by a majority vote prior to implementation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 47-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-07 - held for consideration in environmental conservation [A08271 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08271-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8271

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. PALMESANO, BARCLAY, ANGELINO, BEEPHAN, BENDETT,
          BLANKENBUSH, BLUMENCRANZ, BRABENEC, BROOK-KRASNY, E. BROWN,  K. BROWN,
          BYRNES, CHANG, CURRAN, DeSTEFANO, DiPIETRO, DURSO, FITZPATRICK, FLOOD,
          FRIEND, GALLAHAN, GANDOLFO, J. A. GIGLIO, J. M. GIGLIO, GOODELL, GRAY,
          HAWLEY,  JENSEN, LEMONDES, MAHER, MANKTELOW, McDONOUGH, MCGOWAN, MIKU-
          LIN, MILLER, MORINELLO, NORRIS, NOVAKHOV, PIROZZOLO, RA, REILLY, SIMP-
          SON, SLATER, SMITH, SMULLEN, TAGUE, TANNOUSIS, WALSH -- read once  and
          referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public authorities law, in relation to requiring
          that any rules or regulations promulgated by the department  of  envi-
          ronmental conservation pursuant to the climate action fund are subject
          to a vote of the legislature for approval

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

     1    Section 1. Section 1854 of the public authorities law  is  amended  by
     2  adding two new subdivisions 27 and 28 to read as follows:
     3    27. All rules or regulations promulgated pursuant to subdivision twen-
     4  ty-four,  twenty-five  or twenty-six of this section shall be subject to
     5  approval by a majority vote of the legislature prior to implementation.
     6    28. Pursuant to the climate affordability study described in  subdivi-
     7  sion  twenty-six  of  this  section, no recommendation generated by such
     8  study shall take effect, and no monies shall be deposited  into  any  of
     9  the  accounts  described  in subdivisions twenty-four and twenty-five of
    10  this section, prior to approval by a majority vote of the legislature.
    11    § 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13416-01-3