Bill Text: NY S02510 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Enacts the clean energy investment act of 2016 to promote energy efficiency, energy conservation and the installation of clean energy technologies; reduce energy consumption and energy costs; reduce greenhouse gas emissions; support sustainable community development; and create local New York job opportunities in the energy fields of tomorrow.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-14 - PRINT NUMBER 2510A [S02510 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S02510-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2510--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 26, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni- cations -- recommitted to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni- cations in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public authorities law and the environmental conser- vation law, in relation to emission allowance programs The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "clean 2 energy investment act of 2016". 3 § 2. Legislative intent. It is the intent of this legislation to: 4 1. promote energy efficiency, energy conservation and the installation 5 of renewable energy technologies; 6 2. reduce energy consumption and energy costs; 7 3. reduce greenhouse gas emissions; 8 4. support sustainable community development; and 9 5. create local New York job opportunities in the energy fields of 10 tomorrow. 11 § 3. Subdivision 18 of section 1854 of the public authorities law, as 12 added by chapter 488 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows: 13 18. Emission allowance programs. (a) To continue to receive from the 14 department of environmental conservation or other regulatory authority 15 or agency, and to make available for sale or auction, emission or envi- 16 ronmental allowances or credits, however denominated; to use the 17 proceeds of such sales to promote the purposes of the programs under 18 which the emissions or environmental allowances or credits were 19 received, including, but not limited to, promoting and implementing 20 programs for energy efficiency, renewable or non-carbon emitting tech- 21 nologies, innovative carbon emissions abatement technologies, reducing EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06549-02-6