STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9739 IN ASSEMBLY March 28, 2022 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to solar arrays on certain eligible school buildings The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 409-n 2 to read as follows: 3 § 409-n. Solar arrays on school buildings. 1. Notwithstanding any 4 other provision of law, rule or regulation, every school district with 5 less than one million residents shall develop a plan to deploy solar 6 arrays on the roofs of twenty percent of eligible school buildings. 7 2. If the provisions of the local finance law relating to bonding is 8 completed, such solar arrays shall be installed by January first, two 9 thousand twenty-seven. By January first, two thousand thirty, fifty 10 percent of eligible school buildings shall use solar power and by two 11 thousand thirty-five, one hundred percent of eligible school buildings 12 shall use solar power. 13 3. Any expenditures necessary for compliance with this section shall 14 be exempt from section three-c of the general municipal law. 15 4. For the purposes of this section, an eligible school building shall 16 be a building which, with no major modification, could successfully 17 house solar arrays. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 19 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15138-01-2