Bill Text: NY S02794 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes the 2016 alternative fuel and electric vehicle incentive program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-27 - PRINT NUMBER 2794A [S02794 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02794-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2794--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 29, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
          and  Commissions  --  recommitted  to  the  Committee on Corporations,
          Authorities and Commissions 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, the vehicle and traffic  law
          and the tax law, in relation to establishing the 2016 alternative fuel
          and  electric  vehicle  incentive program; to amend chapter 109 of the
          laws of 2006, amending the tax law and other laws relating to  provid-
          ing  exemptions,  reimbursements  and  credits  from various taxes for
          certain alternative fuels, in relation to the  effectiveness  thereof;
          and providing for the repeal of certain provisions relating thereto
          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  "2016
     2  alternative fuel and electric vehicle incentive program".
     3    § 2. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new section 389
     4  to read as follows:
     5    §  389.  Electric vehicle and zero emissions vehicle E-ZPass discount.
     6  1. a. Any person who has an electronic toll  collection  system  account
     7  with the authority shall receive a twenty-five percent discount on tolls
     8  incurred  on  New  York state toll roads for a motor vehicle which is an
     9  electric vehicle or zero emissions vehicle as such terms are defined  in
    10  paragraph  forty-four  of  subdivision  (a)  of  section  eleven hundred
    11  fifteen of the tax law, and has an environmental protection agency high-
    12  way MPG fuel efficiency of thirty-five or higher. Such discount shall be
    13  known as the  "electric  vehicle  and  zero  emissions  vehicle  E-ZPass
    14  discount".
    15    b.  Such  discount  shall  be valid for a period of two years from the
    16  date such electric vehicle or zero emissions vehicle was purchased.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05616-03-6