NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A993
SPONSOR: Fahy TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the state finance law, in relation to decarbonization
plans for state-owned fleet vehicles; and to repeal certain provisions
of the executive law relating thereto
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL::
This bill provides technical amendments to Chapter 789 of the Laws of
2022.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS::
This chapter amendment would:
*narrow the scope of the original legislation to exclude public authori-
ties;
*shift the planning requirements from the Executive Law to the State
Finance Law; and,
*maintain the requirement for interim goals and timeframes from the
original legislation, which included:
*directing each State agency to prepare a State Fleet Decarbonization
Plan for light-duty non-emergency vehicles by December 31, 2023, and
medium- and heavy-duty vehicles by December 31, 2025;
*requiring all State agency light-duty non-emergency vehicles to be zero
emission by December 31, 2035; and,
*requiring all State agency medium- and heavy-duty vehicles to be zero
emission by December 31, 2040, unless a zero emission vehicle is not
feasible.
JUSTIFICATION::
This bill directs each State agency to prepare and implement a state
fleet decarbonization plan for the purchase or lease of light, medium
and heavy-duty zero emission vehicles, requires the adoption of interim
goals and establishes a timeframe for compliance. The Scoping Plan,
established by the Climate Action Council, recommends transitioning
State-owned fleet vehicles to zero emission vehicles to reduce green-
house gas emissions. The planning process in Chapter 789 of the Laws of
2022 as well as these technical amendments will help facilitate the
achievement of that goal.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY::
This is a new bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS::
To be determined.
EFFECTIVE DATE::
This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as a
chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the executive law relating to the
purchase or lease of zero emission vehicles for state-owned vehicle
fleets, as proposed in legislative bill numbers 5.2838-C and A.2412-B,
takes effect.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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993
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 12, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Energy
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to decarbonization
plans for state-owned fleet vehicles; and to repeal certain provisions
of the executive law relating thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 201-a of the executive law, as
2 added by a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the executive law relat-
3 ing to the purchase or lease of zero emission vehicles for state-owned
4 vehicle fleets, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 2838-C and
5 A. 2412-B, is REPEALED.
6 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 163-d to
7 read as follows:
8 § 163-d. Decarbonization plans for state-owned fleet vehicles. 1.
9 Each state agency shall prepare a state fleet decarbonization plan for
10 purchase or lease of state agency vehicles. The state fleet decarboni-
11 zation plans for light-duty non-emergency vehicles shall be prepared on
12 or before December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-three, and the
13 state fleet decarbonization plans for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles
14 shall be prepared on or before December thirty-first, two thousand twen-
15 ty-five. Such plans shall include interim targets for achieving fleet
16 decarbonization goals.
17 2. All state agency light-duty non-emergency vehicles shall be zero
18 emission vehicles by no later than December thirty-first, two thousand
19 thirty-five, and all state agency medium- and heavy-duty vehicles shall
20 be zero emission vehicles by no later than December thirty-first, two
21 thousand forty, unless a zero emission vehicle is not feasible for a
22 particular application.
23 § 3. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
24 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the executive law
25 relating to the purchase or lease of zero emission vehicles for state-
26 owned vehicle fleets, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 2838-C
27 and A. 2412-B, takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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