Bill Text: NY S00288 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the department of environmental conservation, in coordination with NYSERDA, to submit an annual agency climate expenditure report containing a comprehensive estimate and summary of funds needed and funds spent to achieve the state climate goals.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-09 - SUBSTITUTED BY A1191B [S00288 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S00288-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 288--C 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to requiring the department of environmental conservation, in coordi- nation with the New York state energy research and development author- ity, to submit an annual agency climate expenditure report The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a 2 new section 75-0121 to read as follows: 3 § 75-0121. Agency climate expenditure reporting. 4 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms 5 shall have the following meanings: 6 (a) "Agency" means any department, board, bureau, commission, divi- 7 sion, office, or committee of the state, or state authority. 8 (b) "State authority" shall mean a public authority or public benefit 9 corporation created by or existing under the public authorities law, or 10 any other law of the state of New York, with one or more of its members 11 appointed by the governor or who serve as members by virtue of holding a 12 civil office of the state, other than an interstate or international 13 authority or public benefit corporation, including subsidiaries of such 14 public authority or public benefit corporation. 15 (c) "State climate goals" means the goals and requirements as set 16 forth in chapter one hundred six of the laws of two thousand nineteen. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00524-07-3S. 288--C 2 1 2. Annual agency climate expenditure report. The department, in coor- 2 dination with the New York state energy research and development author- 3 ity shall submit to the temporary president of the senate, the speaker 4 of the assembly, the minority leader of the senate, and the minority 5 leader of the assembly, as early as practicable, but no later than Janu- 6 ary thirtieth of each year, an annual agency climate expenditure report. 7 Such report shall contain a comprehensive estimate and summary of spend- 8 ing, to achieve the state climate goals for each individual agency and 9 for the state as a whole, broken down for each individual climate goal 10 including: 11 (a) amounts of funds spent in the prior fiscal year; 12 (b) funds needed for the upcoming fiscal year; and 13 (c) an analysis of how the use of such funds under paragraphs (a) and 14 (b) of this subdivision have met or are projected to meet requirements 15 for benefiting disadvantaged communities under section 75-0111 of this 16 article, and under the criteria established pursuant to such section. 17 3. Achievement of state climate goals. Upon a determination by the 18 council that any specific state climate goal set forth in section 19 75-0107 of this article, the targets as defined in subdivision two of 20 section sixty-six-p of the public service law, or the procurement 21 requirements of subdivision five of section sixty-six-p of the public 22 service law have been met, such information shall no longer be required 23 to be included in future annual agency climate expenditure reports 24 submitted pursuant to subdivision two of this section. 25 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of February following one 26 year after which it shall have become a law.