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                                   7165
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2020
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 Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the energy law,  in  relation  to  requiring  an  annual
   report  on  appliance  and  equipment  energy efficiency standards and
   resulting energy and utility bill savings
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 16-106 of the energy law, as added
 by  a  chapter  of the laws of 2019, amending the energy law relating to
 requiring an annual report on appliance and equipment energy  efficiency
 standards  and resulting energy and utility bill savings, as proposed in
 legislative bills numbers S. 5866 and A. 7779, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   4.  [Beginning  in  two thousand twenty-one, by] BY March fifteenth of
 [each year] TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE, the  secretary  AND  THE  PRESIDENT
 shall produce a report to the governor, the speaker of the assembly, the
 temporary  president  of the senate, the chair of the assembly committee
 on energy and the chair of the senate committee on energy and telecommu-
 nications on the status of regulations  establishing  energy  efficiency
 performance standards pursuant to this article, which shall indicate for
 each  product  enumerated  in  subdivision one of section 16-104 of this
 article [whether such] THE STATUS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION  OF  performance
 standards  [have been (a) adopted, (b) proposed, or (c) determined to be
 preempted by federal government energy  efficiency  standards.  For  any
 product that has not been determined by the secretary to be preempted by
 federal government energy efficiency standards and for which regulations
 establishing  energy  efficiency  performance  standards  have  not been
 proposed, the report shall set forth the reasons that no standards  have
 been  proposed.  Beginning in two thousand twenty-two, such]. THE report
 shall also set forth the estimated potential annual reductions in energy
 use and potential utility bill savings resulting from  adopted  perform-
 ance  standards  for the years two thousand twenty-five and two thousand
 thirty-five and  the  potential  cumulative  reductions  in  energy  use
 through  the year two thousand thirty-five. [The secretary shall consult

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 with the president in preparing such estimates.] Such  report  shall  be
 updated  [each  year] BY MARCH FIFTEENTH, TWO THOUSAND THIRTY and a copy
 shall [also] be posted by March fifteenth, TWO THOUSAND  THIRTY  on  the
 websites of the authority and the department of state.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the energy law  relat-
 ing  to  requiring  an  annual  report on appliance and equipment energy
 efficiency standards and resulting energy and utility bill  savings,  as
 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 5866 and A. 7779, takes effect.