Bill Text: NY S09682 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a moratorium on the adoption and/or implementation of certain local laws or ordinances, or certain rules or regulations, by a city with a population of one million or more, related to achieving certain reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-20 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S09682 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09682-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9682

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 20, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Environmental
          Conservation

        AN  ACT  establishing a moratorium on the adoption and/or implementation
          of certain local laws or ordinances, or certain rules or  regulations,
          by a city with a population of one million or more, related to achiev-
          ing  certain reductions in greenhouse gas emissions; and providing for
          the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

     1    Section  1.  There  is hereby established a moratorium on the adoption
     2  and/or implementation of any local law or  ordinance,  or  any  rule  or
     3  regulation,  by a city with a population of one million or more, related
     4  to achieving certain reductions in greenhouse gas emissions  which  does
     5  not  exempt  an  industrial  facility  that produces one hundred percent
     6  recycled paper products  primarily  from  recycled  paper  derived  from
     7  covered buildings under such local law.
     8    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
     9  have been in full force and effect on and  after  January  1,  2024  and
    10  shall  expire  and be deemed repealed two hundred seventy days after the
    11  adoption of a local law which re-authorizes, modifies or  repeals  local
    12  law  number  97 of the city of New York for the year 2019, as amended by
    13  local law number 147 of the city of New York for the year  2019  and  by
    14  local  law number 95 of the city of New York for the year 2020 designat-
    15  ing annual building emission intensity limits and  associated  penalties
    16  during  the term commencing January 1, 2024 and terminating December 31,
    17  2024, or any term commencing thereafter; provided that the  mayor  of  a
    18  city  with a population of one million or more shall notify the legisla-
    19  tive bill drafting commission upon the adoption of  such  local  law  in
    20  order  that the commission may maintain an accurate and timely effective
    21  data base of the official text of the laws of the state of New  York  in
    22  furtherance of effectuating the provisions of section 44 of the legisla-
    23  tive law and section 70-b of the public officers law.

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