Bill Text: NY A07779 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires an annual report on appliance and equipment energy efficiency standards and resulting energy and utility bill savings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-16 - approval memo.53 [A07779 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07779-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7779

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 20, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Energy

        AN ACT to amend the energy law,  in  relation  to  requiring  an  annual
          report  on  appliance  and  equipment  energy efficiency standards and
          resulting energy and utility bill savings; and providing for 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. Section 16-106 of the energy law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4.  Beginning  in  two thousand twenty-one, by March fifteenth of each
     4  year, the secretary shall produce a report to the governor, the  speaker
     5  of the assembly, the temporary president of the senate, the chair of the
     6  assembly  committee  on  energy and the chair of the senate committee on
     7  energy and telecommunications on the status of regulations  establishing
     8  energy  efficiency performance standards pursuant to this article, which
     9  shall indicate for each product enumerated in subdivision one of section
    10  16-104 of this article whether such performance standards have been  (a)
    11  adopted,  (b)  proposed,  or  (c)  determined to be preempted by federal
    12  government energy efficiency standards. For any  product  that  has  not
    13  been  determined  by the secretary to be preempted by federal government
    14  energy efficiency standards and for which regulations establishing ener-
    15  gy efficiency performance standards have not been proposed,  the  report
    16  shall set forth the reasons that no standards have been proposed. Begin-
    17  ning  in  two  thousand twenty-two, such report shall also set forth the
    18  estimated potential annual reductions in energy use and potential utili-
    19  ty bill savings resulting from adopted  performance  standards  for  the
    20  years  two  thousand  twenty-five  and  two thousand thirty-five and the
    21  potential cumulative reductions in energy use through the year two thou-
    22  sand thirty-five. The secretary shall  consult  with  the  president  in
    23  preparing  such  estimates. Such report shall be updated each year and a

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11573-01-9
        A. 7779                             2

     1  copy shall also be posted by March fifteenth  on  the  websites  of  the
     2  authority and the department of state.
     3    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
     4  deemed repealed December 31, 2030.