Bill Text: NY S07622 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires solar facilities to conspicuously post safety data sheets in areas that may be accessed by emergency responders in the case of a fire or other emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S07622 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07622-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7622--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     August 2, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. WALCZYK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Rules  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring solar
          facilities to conspicuously post safety data sheets in areas that  may
          be  accessed  by  emergency  responders in the case of a fire or other
          emergency

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The public service law is amended by adding a new section
     2  66-w to read as follows:
     3    § 66-w. Solar facility safety.  1. For the purposes of  this  section,
     4  the following terms shall have the following meanings:
     5    (a) "Solar facility" means an electric generating facility, as defined
     6  by  section five hundred seventy-five-a of the real property tax law, or
     7  portion thereof, that collects, converts, or stores solar energy for the
     8  generation of electricity with the use of solar thermal and/or photovol-
     9  taic technologies.
    10    (b) "Safety data sheet" means the document containing information  and
    11  instructions  for safe use and potential hazards associated with partic-
    12  ular chemicals and materials that is approved  by  the  federal  Occupa-
    13  tional Safety and Health Administration.
    14    2.  Every solar facility in the state shall have the safety data sheet
    15  conspicuously posted in any area on such solar facility that would like-
    16  ly be accessed by emergency responders in the case of a  fire  or  other
    17  emergency.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11973-02-3