Bill Text: NY S02903 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes school districts to use district funds for the installation and maintenance of wood pellet, wood chip or other biomass burning boiler systems.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-23 - PRINT NUMBER 2903A [S02903 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S02903-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2903--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 18, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education 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 education law, in relation to the use of school district funds to install and maintain wood pellet, wood chip or other biomass burning boiler systems The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 6 of section 3602 of the educa- 2 tion law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 8 to read as follows: 3 (8) A school district is authorized to use any funds otherwise dedi- 4 cated for renovations or repairs to a building within the district to 5 pay for the installation and maintenance of a wood pellet, wood chip or 6 other biomass burning boiler system. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08237-02-8
