New York Senate Bill S00685 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 685 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni- cations AN ACT to amend the energy law, in relation to authorizing existing building projects to continue when the fossil fuel ban takes effect The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 6 of section 11-104 of the 2 energy law, as added by section 1 of part RR of chapter 56 of the laws 3 of 2023, is amended to read as follows: 4 (b) In addition to the foregoing, to support the goal of zero on-site 5 greenhouse gas emissions and help achieve the state's clean energy and 6 climate agenda, including but not limited to greenhouse gas reduction 7 requirements set forth within chapter one hundred six of the laws of two 8 thousand nineteen, also known as the New York state climate leadership 9 and community protection act, the code shall prohibit the installation 10 of fossil-fuel equipment and building systems, in any new building not 11 more than seven stories in height, except for a new commercial or indus- 12 trial building greater than one hundred thousand square feet in condi- 13 tioned floor area, on or after December thirty-first, two thousand twen- 14 ty-five, and the code shall prohibit the installation of fossil-fuel 15 equipment and building systems, in all new buildings after December 16 thirty-first, two thousand twenty-eight. Such prohibition shall not 17 apply to any new building for which a site plan, tentative map or subdi- 18 vision plat has been approved by the local planning board, or for which 19 a building permit has been issued, prior to such dates. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02754-01-5