Bill Text: NY S04945 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a clean air account; makes an appropriation therefor; specifies the manner in which such appropriation is to be utilized.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S04945 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04945-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4945

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  PARKER,  HOYLMAN-SIGAL, SERRANO -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Finance

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the state finance law, in relation to establishing a
          clean air account; and making an appropriation therefor

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 92-s of the state
     2  finance law, as amended by section 1 of part U of chapter 58 of the laws
     3  of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
     4    a. The comptroller shall establish the following separate and distinct
     5  accounts within the environmental protection fund:
     6    (i) solid waste account;
     7    (ii) parks, recreation and historic preservation account;
     8    (iii) open space account;
     9    (iv) climate change mitigation and adaptation account; [and]
    10    (v) environmental protection transfer account[.]; and
    11    (vi) clean air account.
    12    § 2. Paragraph (f) of subdivision 6  of  section  92-s  of  the  state
    13  finance law is relettered paragraph (g) and a new paragraph (f) is added
    14  to read as follows:
    15    (f)  Moneys from the clean air account shall be available, pursuant to
    16  appropriation, for clean air account projects according to  the  follow-
    17  ing:
    18    (i) Thirty-five million dollars to upgrade school boilers. The commis-
    19  sioner of education shall establish a procedure to determine the priori-
    20  ty of which school boilers shall be replaced;
    21    (ii)  Five  million dollars for grants to schools in clean air non-at-
    22  tainment areas to pay for the increased cost of ultra low sulfur diesel;
    23  and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (iii) Ten million dollars to fund the initial  costs  associated  with
     2  conversion to boilers or furnaces that use bio-fuel.
     3    § 3. The sum of fifty million dollars ($50,000,000), or so much there-
     4  of  as  may  be  necessary,  is hereby appropriated to the department of
     5  environmental conservation out of any moneys in the  state  treasury  in
     6  the  general  fund to the credit of the clean air account, not otherwise
     7  appropriated, and made immediately available, for the purpose of  carry-
     8  ing  out the provisions of this act. Such moneys shall be payable on the
     9  audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified  or  approved
    10  by  the  commissioner of the department of environmental conservation in
    11  the manner prescribed by law.
    12    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.