Bill Text: NY S01530 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 1530

Bill Title: Requires the use of biodiesel and renewable diesel in state diesel operated vehicles; defines biodiesel as renewable, biodegradable, mono alkyl ester combustible liquid fuel derived from agricultural plant oils, animal fats or waste oils and greases.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-01 - PRINT NUMBER 1530A [S01530 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01530-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1530--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 12, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. ORTT, OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Investigations
          and  Government Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on Investi-
          gations and Government Operations in accordance with  Senate  Rule  6,
          sec.  8  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the use  of  biodiesel
          and renewable diesel fuel in state vehicles

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

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  201-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  201-b.  Use of biodiesel and renewable diesel in state vehicles. 1.
     4  Any diesel operated vehicles within the state fleet shall be replaced or
     5  retrofitted, if necessary, to operate on biodiesel or  renewable  diesel
     6  at the following levels:
     7    a.  For January first, two thousand twenty-five through December thir-
     8  ty-first, two thousand twenty-five, five percent biodiesel or  renewable
     9  diesel;
    10    b.  For  January first, two thousand twenty-six through December thir-
    11  ty-first, two thousand twenty-six, ten percent  biodiesel  or  renewable
    12  diesel;
    13    c. For January first, two thousand twenty-seven and thereafter, twenty
    14  percent biodiesel or renewable diesel.
    15    2.  For  purposes  of  this section, "biodiesel" or "renewable diesel"
    16  shall mean a fuel that meets the requirements of the ASTM  international
    17  specification  D6751 or the requirements of the ASTM international spec-
    18  ification D975. "Renewable diesel" shall not include cessed biomass with
    19  a feedstock that is not  biomass;  provided,  however,  that  "renewable
    20  diesel"  shall be produced from hydroprocessing renewable biomass feeds-
    21  tocks. "Biodiesel" shall mean renewable, biodegradable, mono alkyl ester

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05203-02-4

        S. 1530--A                          2

     1  combustible liquid fuel derived from  agricultural  plant  oils,  animal
     2  fats or waste oils and greases.
     3    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.