Bill Text: NY A09383 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for the issuance of certificates of registration for entities that manufacture or assemble zero-emissions vehicles and have no franchised motor vehicle dealers in New York if the sale of zero-emission vehicles in the state fail to meet certain targets.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-03-08 - print number 9383a [A09383 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09383-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9383--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 6, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee  on  Environmental  Conservation  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          increasing sales of zero-emission vehicles

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

     1    Section 1. Section 19-0306-b of the environmental conservation law  is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6.  a.  (i)  The  department,  the  New York state energy research and
     4  development authority, the department of motor vehicles, and the depart-
     5  ment of transportation, in consultation with the other  state  agencies,
     6  shall report on December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-four and on a
     7  bi-annual  basis  thereafter  until  December thirty-first, two thousand
     8  thirty-two, the state's zero-emission vehicle sales by new motor vehicle
     9  dealers, as defined in section four hundred fifteen of the  vehicle  and
    10  traffic  law,  except  for  manufacturers  that  manufacture or assemble
    11  exclusively zero-emissions vehicles, or is a subsidiary,  affiliate,  or
    12  controlled  entity  of  such a manufacturer, as outlined in subparagraph
    13  (iii) of paragraph f of subdivision seven of such section.
    14    (ii) Notwithstanding any provision of subparagraph (iii) of  paragraph
    15  f  of  subdivision  seven of section four hundred fifteen of the vehicle
    16  and traffic law, if the department finds  in  its  initial  report  that
    17  projections  of  sales by new motor vehicle dealers, except for manufac-
    18  turers that manufacture or assemble exclusively zero-emissions vehicles,
    19  or is a subsidiary, affiliate, or controlled entity of such  a  manufac-
    20  turer,  fail  to show that thirty-five percent of vehicle sales in model
    21  year two thousand twenty-six will be  zero-emission  vehicles  then  the
    22  department  of  motor  vehicles  shall  issue  up to ten certificates of
    23  registration pursuant to section four hundred fifteen of the vehicle and
    24  traffic law for entities that  manufacture  or  assemble  zero-emissions
    25  vehicles and have no franchised motor vehicle dealers in New York.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    b.  If  the  bi-annual  report  on December thirty-first, two thousand
     2  twenty-eight finds projections of sales by new  motor  vehicle  dealers,
     3  except  for manufacturers that manufacture or assemble exclusively zero-
     4  emissions vehicles, or is a subsidiary, affiliate, or controlled  entity
     5  of  such  a manufacturer, fail to show that sixty-eight percent of sales
     6  by model year two thousand thirty will be zero-emissions  vehicles  then
     7  the  department  of  motor  vehicles  shall  issue  up to ten additional
     8  certificates of registration pursuant to section four hundred fifteen of
     9  the vehicle and traffic law for entities that  manufacture  or  assemble
    10  zero-emissions  vehicles and have no franchised motor vehicle dealers in
    11  New York.
    12    c. If the bi-annual report  on  December  thirty-first,  two  thousand
    13  thirty-two  finds  projections  of  sales  by new motor vehicle dealers,
    14  except for manufacturers that manufacture or assemble exclusively  zero-
    15  emissions  vehicles, or is a subsidiary, affiliate, or controlled entity
    16  of such a manufacturer, fail to show that one hundred percent  of  sales
    17  by  model  year two thousand thirty-five will be zero-emissions vehicles
    18  then the department of motor vehicles shall issue up to  ten  additional
    19  certificates of registration pursuant to section four hundred fifteen of
    20  the  vehicle  and  traffic law for entities that manufacture or assemble
    21  zero-emissions vehicles and have no franchised motor vehicle dealers  in
    22  New York.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.