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                                   8251
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             November 15, 2023
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. GRAY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT amending the education law, in relation to establishing the "SUNY
   excess building asset inventory and  repurposing  act";  conducting  a
   study relating to excess building assets; and providing for the repeal
   of certain provisions upon expiration thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "SUNY excess building asset inventory and repurposing act".
   §  2.  Section  370  of  the  education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 15 to read as follows:
   15. "EXCESS BUILDING ASSETS" SHALL MEAN ANY  BUILDINGS  OR  STRUCTURES
 OWNED  BY  THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK THAT ARE NOT CURRENTLY BEING
 USED FOR ACADEMIC, ADMINISTRATIVE, OR RESIDENTIAL PURPOSES.
   § 3. Section 373 of the education law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 subdivision 20 to read as follows:
   20.  THE FUND SHALL CONDUCT AN INVENTORY OF ALL EXCESS BUILDING ASSETS
 THAT IS TO BE COMPLETED NO LATER THAN ONE YEAR AFTER THE EFFECTIVE  DATE
 OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION,  AND  ANNUALLY  THEREAFTER.  SUCH INVENTORY SHALL
 CONTAIN THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION FOR EACH EXCESS BUILDING ASSET:
   (A) LOCATION;
   (B) SIZE;
   (C) TYPE, INCLUDING BUT NOT  LIMITED  TO,  RESIDENTIAL,  ACADEMIC,  OR
 ADMINISTRATIVE;
   (D) CURRENT CONDITION; AND
   (E) PAST USE.
   §  4. 1. Following an inventory of all excess building assets pursuant
 to subdivision twenty of section  three  hundred  seventy-three  of  the
 education law, the state university of New York shall conduct a study to
 be  completed  no  later than two years after the effective date of this
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 section which shall include but not be limited to the following informa-
 tion:
   (a)  the effect of repurposing excess building assets, and such repur-
 posing's potential to provide cost relief to institutions;
   (b) the financial feasibility of such repurposing;
   (c) proposals for potential uses of excess building  assets  including
 potential  demolition, if necessary and the environmental impact of such
 demolitions; and
   (d) the potential cost savings from  repurposing  or  demolition,  and
 potential sources of funding for such repurposing or demolition.
   2.  The  state  university shall provide a report to the governor, the
 temporary president of the senate, the minority leader  of  the  senate,
 the  speaker  of  the  assembly, and the minority leader of the assembly
 upon the completion  of  the  inventory  and  study.  The  report  shall
 include, but not be limited to, the findings of the inventory and study,
 as  well as recommendations for legislative or administrative actions to
 address the excess building assets.
   § 5. Severability. If any clause,  sentence,  paragraph,  subdivision,
 section  or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent
 jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,  impair,  or
 invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation
 to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section or part thereof
 directly  involved  in the controversy in which such judgment shall have
 been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of the legislature
 that this act would have been enacted even if  such  invalid  provisions
 had not been included herein.
   §  6.  This  act shall take effect immediately; provided, however that
 the provisions of section four of this  act  shall  expire  three  years
 after such date when upon such date the provisions of such section shall
 be deemed repealed.