Bill Text: NY S06210 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the state fire prevention and building code council to update the state fire prevention and building code and the state energy conservation construction code within 18 months of the publication of any updated or revised edition of the international and national codes relating thereto, so as to ensure that the state's codes reflect such revisions and updates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-06-01 - referred to governmental operations [S06210 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06210-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6210--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 15, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
          Community  Development  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the executive law and the energy  law,  in  relation  to
          requiring the updating of the state uniform fire prevention and build-
          ing  code  and  the state energy conservation construction code on the
          basis of update of certain international codes

          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 377 of the executive law is renum-
     2  bered subdivision 3 and a new subdivision 2 is added to read as follows:
     3    2.  Each time a revised or updated edition of the International Build-
     4  ing  Code,  the  International  Fire Code, the International Residential
     5  Code, the International  Plumbing  Code,  the  International  Mechanical
     6  Code, the International Fuel Gas Code, the International Existing Build-
     7  ing  Code,  the  International Property Maintenance Code or the National
     8  Electrical Code is published, the council  shall,  twelve  months  after
     9  publication  of  a  revised  or  updated edition, cause the uniform fire
    10  prevention and building code to be updated to  reflect  changes  in  any
    11  such  revised  or updated edition.   To the extent that the uniform fire
    12  prevention and building code has not been updated to reflect changes  in
    13  any  such  revised  or  updated edition as of the effective date of this
    14  act, the council shall, as soon as practicable and no later than  twelve
    15  months  after  the  effective  date  of this act, cause the uniform fire
    16  prevention and building code to be updated to reflect such changes.
    17    § 2. Section 11-101 of the energy law, as amended by  chapter  516  of
    18  the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
    19    §  11-101. Purpose.  In furtherance of the [policy] policies set forth
    20  in subdivision two of section 3-101 of this chapter and in  chapter  one
    21  hundred  six  of the laws of two thousand nineteen enacting the New York

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 6210--A                          2

     1  state climate leadership and community protection act,  the  legislature
     2  hereby  directs  that  a  state energy conservation construction code be
     3  adopted to protect the health, safety and security of the people of  the
     4  state and to assure a continuing supply of energy for future generations
     5  and that such code mandate that [economically] reasonable energy conser-
     6  vation  techniques  be used in the design and construction of all public
     7  and private buildings in the state.
     8    § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 11-103 of the energy law, as amended  by
     9  chapter 560 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
    10    2.  (a) The state fire prevention and building code council is author-
    11  ized, from time to time as it deems appropriate and consistent with  the
    12  purposes  of  this article, to review and amend the code, or adopt a new
    13  code, through rules and regulations [provided that the code remains cost
    14  effective with respect to building construction in the state. In  deter-
    15  mining  whether  the code remains cost effective, the code council shall
    16  consider whether the cost of materials and their  installation  to  meet
    17  its standards would be equal to or less than the present value of energy
    18  savings that could be expected over a ten year period in the building in
    19  which such materials are installed]. For residential buildings, the code
    20  shall  meet  or  exceed  the  then most recently published International
    21  Energy Conservation  Code,  or  achieve  equivalent  or  greater  energy
    22  savings;  and  for  commercial  buildings, the code shall meet or exceed
    23  [ASHRAE 90.1-2007] the then most  recently  published  ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA
    24  Standard 90.1, or achieve equivalent or greater energy savings.
    25    (b) The state fire prevention and building code council shall, as soon
    26  as  practicable and no later than twelve months after the publication of
    27  each revised or updated edition of the International Energy Conservation
    28  Code or the ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard  90.1,  cause  the  state  energy
    29  conservation  construction  code to be updated to reflect changes in any
    30  such revised or updated edition.  To the extent that  the  state  energy
    31  conservation  construction  code has not been updated to reflect changes
    32  in any such revised or updated edition as of the effective date of  this
    33  act,  the council shall, as soon as practicable and no later than twelve
    34  months after the effective date of this  act,  cause  the  state  energy
    35  conservation construction code to be updated to reflect such changes.
    36    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.