Bill Text: NY S08397 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the expiration and repeal of regulations limiting the engines of school vehicles to remain idling while parked or standing on school grounds.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-04 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S08397 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08397-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8397
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 4, 2018
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        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
        AN  ACT  to amend chapter 670 of the laws of 2007 amending the education
          law relating to directing the commissioner of education to  promulgate
          regulations  limiting  the engines of school vehicles to remain idling
          while parked or standing on school grounds, in relation to the  effec-
          tiveness thereof
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 2 of chapter 670 of the laws of 2007  amending  the
     2  education  law  relating  to  directing the commissioner of education to
     3  promulgate regulations limiting the engines of school vehicles to remain
     4  idling while parked or standing on school grounds, as amended by chapter
     5  74 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     6    § 2. This act shall  take  effect  immediately  and  shall  be  deemed
     7  repealed [June 30, 2019] upon a finding by the commissioner of education
     8  that  either  all  school  buses  and vehicles owned or leased by school
     9  districts no longer run on fossil fuels or all such busses and  vehicles
    10  run  on  electricity  or  other  alternative  fuels with zero emissions;
    11  provided that the commissioner of education shall notify the legislative
    12  bill drafting commission upon the occurrence of such  finding  in  order
    13  that the commissioner may maintain an accurate and timely effective data
    14  base of the official text of the laws of the state of New York in furth-
    15  erance  of  effectuating the provisions of section 44 of the legislative
    16  law and section 70-b of the public officers law.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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