Bill Text: NY S02510 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the clean energy investment act of 2016 to promote energy efficiency, energy conservation and the installation of clean energy technologies; reduce energy consumption and energy costs; reduce greenhouse gas emissions; support sustainable community development; and create local New York job opportunities in the energy fields of tomorrow.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-14 - PRINT NUMBER 2510A [S02510 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02510-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2510--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 26, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations  --  recommitted  to  the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
          cations 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 public authorities law and the environmental conser-
          vation law, in relation to emission allowance programs
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as  the  "clean
     2  energy investment act of 2016".
     3    § 2. Legislative intent. It is the intent of this legislation to:
     4    1. promote energy efficiency, energy conservation and the installation
     5  of renewable energy technologies;
     6    2. reduce energy consumption and energy costs;
     7    3. reduce greenhouse gas emissions;
     8    4. support sustainable community development; and
     9    5.  create  local  New  York job opportunities in the energy fields of
    10  tomorrow.
    11    § 3. Subdivision 18 of section 1854 of the public authorities law,  as
    12  added by chapter 488 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
    13    18.  Emission  allowance programs. (a) To continue to receive from the
    14  department of environmental conservation or other  regulatory  authority
    15  or  agency, and to make available for sale or auction, emission or envi-
    16  ronmental  allowances  or  credits,  however  denominated;  to  use  the
    17  proceeds  of  such  sales  to promote the purposes of the programs under
    18  which  the  emissions  or  environmental  allowances  or  credits   were
    19  received,  including,  but  not  limited  to, promoting and implementing
    20  programs for energy efficiency, renewable or non-carbon  emitting  tech-
    21  nologies,  innovative  carbon emissions abatement technologies, reducing
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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