Bill Text: NY S06732 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires that the manufacture and distribution of electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar collectors and infrastructure to upgrade the power grid is conducted using only wind and solar energy and does not use any power derived from fossil fuels, nuclear energy or any form of combustion; amends definitions within the clean-fueled vehicle and buses projects to require such vehicles are manufactured and distributed using only wind and solar energy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S06732 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S06732-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6732 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 8, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BORRELLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni- cations AN ACT to amend the energy law, the executive law and the environmental conservation law, in relation to requiring that the manufacture and distribution of electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar collectors and infrastructure to upgrade the power grid is conducted using only wind and solar energy The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 5 and 6 of section 3-101 of the energy law, 2 subdivision 5 as amended by chapter 396 of the laws of 1978, are amended 3 and a new subdivision 8 is added to read as follows: 4 5. to foster, encourage and promote the prudent development and wise 5 use of all indigenous state energy resources including, but not limited 6 to, on-shore oil and natural gas, off-shore oil and natural gas, natural 7 gas from Devonian shale formations, small head hydro, wood, solar, wind, 8 solid waste, energy from biomass, fuel cells and cogeneration; [and] 9 6. to encourage a new ethic among its citizens to conserve rather than 10 waste precious fuels; and to foster public and private initiative to 11 achieve these ends at the state and local levels[.]; and 12 8. to require that the manufacture and distribution of electric vehi- 13 cles, wind turbines, solar collectors and infrastructure to upgrade the 14 power grid is conducted using only wind and solar energy and does not 15 use any power derived from fossil fuels, nuclear energy or any form of 16 combustion. This subdivision shall apply to all mining and material 17 processing required to obtain and create materials used, all industrial 18 operations, fabrication and assembly, and all distribution to end users. 19 § 2. Section 5-108 of the energy law is amended by adding a new subdi- 20 vision b-1 to read as follows: 21 b-1. The commissioner, in consultation with the office of general 22 services, shall promulgate rules and regulations which shall require, at 23 a minimum, that all electric passenger automobiles purchased by or for 24 the state or any agency or public authority thereof shall have been EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10990-01-3S. 6732 2 1 manufactured and distributed using only power derived from wind and 2 solar energy, in accordance with the provisions of subdivision eight of 3 section 3-101 of this chapter. 4 § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 201-a of the executive law, as added by 5 chapter 413 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows: 6 2. For the purposes of this section, the term "clean-fueled vehicle" 7 shall mean any motor vehicle as defined in section one hundred twenty- 8 five of the vehicle and traffic law, that uses electricity, either 9 stored or generated on-board, as its primary motive force or that is 10 fueled by compressed natural gas, propane, methanol, hydrogen or etha- 11 nol. A vehicle shall be considered a "clean-fueled vehicle" only if the 12 manufacture and distribution process of such vehicle was conducted using 13 wind and solar energy and without the use of fossil fuels, nuclear ener- 14 gy or any form of combustion, including the mining and material process- 15 ing required to obtain and create materials used, all industrial oper- 16 ations, fabrication and assembly and all distribution to end users. 17 § 4. Subdivision 2 of section 56-0603 of the environmental conserva- 18 tion law, as added by chapter 413 of the laws of 1996, is amended to 19 read as follows: 20 2. For the purposes of this section, the term "clean-fueled vehicle" 21 shall mean any motor vehicle as defined in section one hundred twenty- 22 five of the vehicle and traffic law, that uses electricity, including 23 electricity generated from solar energy, either stored or generated 24 on-board, as its primary motive force, or that is fueled by compressed 25 natural gas, propane, methanol, hydrogen or ethanol. A vehicle shall be 26 considered a "clean-fueled vehicle" only if the manufacture and distrib- 27 ution process of such vehicle was conducted using wind and solar energy 28 and without the use of fossil fuels, nuclear energy or any form of 29 combustion, including the mining and material processing required to 30 obtain and create materials used, all industrial operations, fabrication 31 and assembly and all distribution to end users. 32 § 5. Subdivision 2 of section 56-0605 of the environmental conserva- 33 tion law, as amended by section 3 of part I of chapter 82 of the laws of 34 2002, is amended to read as follows: 35 2. For the purposes of this section, the term "clean-fueled bus" shall 36 mean any motor vehicle having a seating capacity of fifteen or more 37 passengers in addition to the driver and used for the transportation of 38 persons on public highways, that is fueled by compressed natural gas, 39 propane, methanol, hydrogen, biodiesel or ethanol, or uses electricity, 40 including electricity generated from solar energy, either stored or 41 generated on-board, as its primary motive force and that was manufac- 42 tured and distributed using only wind and solar energy without the use 43 of fossil fuels, nuclear energy or any form of combustion. For the 44 purposes of this section, the term "diesel-fueled school bus retrofit 45 equipment" shall mean equipment and/or technologies, including, but not 46 limited to, particulate traps or filters and catalytic converters that 47 reduce emissions of particulate matter, hydrocarbons, oxides of nitro- 48 gen, carbon monoxide, or toxic air pollutants. 49 § 6. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a 50 law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment, and/or repeal of 51 any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on 52 its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before 53 such effective date.
