Bill Text: NY S01258 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires state office buildings to be in compliance with the greenhouse gas emissions limits established by the New York state climate leadership and community protection act three years before such limits apply statewide.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S01258 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01258-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1258

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          requiring  state  office  buildings  to  be in compliance with certain
          greenhouse gas emissions limits three years before such  limits  apply
          statewide

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2  of  section  75-0109  of  the  environmental
     2  conservation  law  is  amended  by  adding  a new paragraph e to read as
     3  follows:
     4    e. Ensure that the aggregate emissions of greenhouse  gases  resulting
     5  from the operation of state office buildings shall not exceed the state-
     6  wide  greenhouse  gas emissions limits established in section 75-0107 of
     7  this article, three years before such statewide greenhouse gas emissions
     8  are required by section 75-0107 of this article.
     9    § 2. Section 75-0101 of the environmental conservation law is  amended
    10  by adding a new subdivision 16 to read as follows:
    11    16.  "State  office building" means any building or group of buildings
    12  together with their common facilities, related public improvements,  and
    13  appurtenances,  constructed by or for the state, and owned by the state,
    14  for the primary use as state offices, departments, agencies,  or  other-
    15  wise for use by state employees or the public at large.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



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