Bill Text: NY A08521 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the use of cool roofs on new construction or substantially renovated state-owned buildings; relates to establishing the state green building construction act.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to energy [A08521 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08521-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8521

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 7, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Energy

        AN ACT to amend the public buildings law, in relation to authorizing the
          use of cool roofs on new or substantially renovated state-owned build-
          ings

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

     1    Section 1.  The section heading and subdivision 1 of section 83 of the
     2  public buildings law, as added by chapter 380 of the laws of  2009,  are
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    Agency  green  building  and  cool  roof construction requirements. 1.
     5  [The] (a) For purposes of  minimizing  the  consumption  of  energy  and
     6  providing for the efficient utilization of resources expended in the use
     7  and  occupancy of state buildings, the construction of new buildings and
     8  the substantial renovation of existing buildings shall comply with  such
     9  green construction requirements and procedures as shall have been estab-
    10  lished  by the office in regulations pursuant to subdivision two of this
    11  section.
    12    (b) For the purpose of increasing solar reflectance and thermal  emit-
    13  tance  of  agency  buildings,  new construction of agency buildings with
    14  flat roofs or substantial renovation of the  roof  subsystem  of  agency
    15  buildings  with flat roofs shall comply with the cool roof standards and
    16  regulations promulgated by the office pursuant  to  subdivision  two  of
    17  this  section.  Such  standards and regulations shall require the use of
    18  materials and/or methods including, but not be limited to:
    19    (i) Inherently cool roofing materials such as white vinyl;
    20    (ii) Coated roofs and white paint based products;
    21    (iii) Green roofs using plant-based materials for insulation cover.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03427-01-9