Bill Text: NY S00288 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         288--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        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

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          requiring the governor 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,
    17  as amended.
    18    2. Annual agency climate expenditure report.  The department, in coor-
    19  dination with the New York state energy research and development author-
    20  ity shall submit to the temporary president of the senate and the speak-
    21  er of the assembly, as early as practicable, but no later  than  January

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00524-02-3
        S. 288--A                           2

     1  thirtieth  of  each  year,  an annual agency climate expenditure report.
     2  Such report shall contain a comprehensive estimate and summary of spend-
     3  ing, to achieve the state climate goals for each individual  agency  and
     4  for  the  state as a whole, broken down for each individual climate goal
     5  including:
     6    (a) amounts of funds spent in the prior fiscal year;
     7    (b) funds needed for the upcoming fiscal year; and
     8    (c) an analysis of how the use of such funds under paragraphs (a)  and
     9  (b)  of  this subdivision have met or are projected to meet requirements
    10  for benefiting disadvantaged communities under section 75-0111  of  this
    11  article, and under the criteria established pursuant to such section.
    12    3.  Achievement  of  state  climate goals. Upon a determination by the
    13  council that any specific  state  climate  goal  set  forth  in  section
    14  75-0107  of  this  article, the targets as defined in subdivision two of
    15  section sixty-six-p of  the  public  service  law,  or  the  procurement
    16  requirements  of  subdivision  five of section sixty-six-p of the public
    17  service law have been met, such information shall no longer be  required
    18  to  be  included  in  future  annual  agency climate expenditure reports
    19  submitted pursuant to subdivision two of this section.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of February following one
    21  year after which it shall have become a law.