Bill Text: NY A06592 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Exempts new electric vehicles, clean fuel vehicles and vehicles that meet the clean vehicle standards from the first year of registration fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-01 - print number 6592a [A06592 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06592-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6592--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 27, 2015
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        Introduced  by M. of A. CRESPO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO,
          MOYA, RAMOS, RIVERA, RODRIGUEZ  --  read  once  and  referred  to  the
          Committee  on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Trans-
          portation in accordance with Assembly Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to exempting
          new electric vehicles, clean fuel vehicles and vehicles that meet  the
          clean  vehicle standards from the fees for the first year of registra-
          tion of such vehicles; 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. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding three new
     2  sections 107-a, 114-e and 159-a to read as follows:
     3    § 107-a.  Clean fuel vehicle. Every motor vehicle which  qualifies  as
     4  clean-fuel  vehicle  property  pursuant to subsection (c) of section one
     5  hundred seventy-nine-A of the federal Internal Revenue Code.
     6    § 114-e. Electric vehicle. Every motor vehicle which  is  a  qualified
     7  electric  vehicle  pursuant  to  subsection (c) of section thirty of the
     8  federal Internal Revenue Code.
     9    § 159-a. Vehicle that meets the clean vehicle standards.  Every  motor
    10  vehicle  which (a) is certified, as provided for under the provisions of
    11  the federal Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. section 7401 et seq.,  as  amended)
    12  as meeting exhaust emission standards for super-ultra-low emission vehi-
    13  cles which the state of California has adopted (California Code of Regu-
    14  lations,  Title  13)  and  is permitted to adopt under 42 U.S.C. section
    15  7543, and which other states are permitted  to  adopt  under  42  U.S.C.
    16  section  7503,  and  (b)  has a fuel efficiency that is at least one and
    17  one-half times the average fuel efficiency for vehicles  in  its  weight
    18  class.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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