Senate Bill S1153

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Creates the alternative fuel incentive fund; creates the alternative fuels credit; establishes alternative fuel grants; appropriation

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S1153 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Appropriations
Laws Affected:
Add §99-ff, St Fin L; amd §§1148, 606 & 210-B, add §§187-q & 187-r, Tax L; add §1884, amd §§354 & 351, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S4356
2021-2022: S1526

2019-S1153 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates the alternative fuel incentive fund; provides that monies allocated from the fund will be used for certain purposes; makes an appropriation therefor; provides that thirty million dollars will be allocated for research and development, twenty seven million dollars for the thruway authority to create alternative fuel stations on the thruway, twenty million dollars for a cellulosic ethanol refinery and five million dollars for administrative costs.

2019-S1153 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1153 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1153
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 11, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. TEDISCO -- 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  creating  the
   alternative  fuel incentive fund; to amend the tax law, in relation to
   creating the alternative fuels credit; to amend the public authorities
   law, in relation to alternative fuel grants; and making  an  appropri-
   ation therefor
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 99-ff to read as follows:
   §  99-FF.  ALTERNATIVE  FUEL INCENTIVE FUND. 1. THERE IS HEREBY ESTAB-
 LISHED IN THE JOINT CUSTODY OF THE STATE COMPTROLLER AND THE COMMISSION-
 ER OF TAXATION AND FINANCE A SPECIAL REVENUE FUND TO  BE  KNOWN  AS  THE
 "ALTERNATIVE FUEL INCENTIVE FUND".
   2.  THE  FUND SHALL CONSIST OF THE AMOUNT OF REVENUES FROM SALES TAXES
 IMPOSED ON THE RECEIPTS OF THE PRICE OF MOTOR AND DIESEL FUEL MORE  THAN
 ONE DOLLAR OR EQUAL TO OR LESS THAN TWO DOLLARS.
   3.  MONIES  OF  THE  FUND,  WHEN ALLOCATED, SHALL BE DISBURSED FOR THE
 FOLLOWING PURPOSES:
   (A) CREDITS AGAINST PERSONAL INCOME TAX AND  CORPORATE  FRANCHISE  TAX
 FOR  THE  INSTALLATION OR CONVERSION OF FUELING STATIONS FOR ALTERNATIVE
 FUELS;
   (B) GRANTS FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN REGARDS TO FUEL  DIVERSIFI-
 CATION AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN THE TRANSPORTATION SECTOR;
   (C)  INSTALLATION OF ALTERNATIVE FUELING STATIONS AT EACH OF THE TWEN-
 TY-SEVEN TRAVEL PLAZAS ON THE NEW YORK STATE THRUWAY;
   (D) GRANTS FOR A CELLULOSIC ETHANOL REFINERY; AND
   (E) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS BORNE  BY  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF  TAXATION  AND
 FINANCE  AND THE NEW YORK STATE ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORI-
 TY.

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

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