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Senate Bill S7653

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Creates a religious exemption to the ban on fossil fuel equipment and systems

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2023-S7653 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8398
Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Energy Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-104, Energy L; amd §378, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
S1951, A5526

2023-S7653 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides an exemption for the purposes of allowing the installation and use of fossil-fuel equipment and building systems where such are installed and used in a building or part of a building that is owned or occupied by a person who holds genuine and sincere religious beliefs and whose health and safety will be jeopardized due to the prohibition of the installation of fossil-fuel equipment and building systems because of such genuine and sincere religious beliefs.

2023-S7653 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S7653 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7653
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                            September 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the energy law and the executive  law,  in  relation  to
   creating a religious exemption to the ban on fossil fuel equipment and
   systems

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 7 of  section  11-104  of  the
 energy  law,  as added by section 1 of part RR of chapter 56 of the laws
 of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
   (b) In addition, in effectuating the provisions set forth in paragraph
 (b) of subdivision six of this section the code shall include exemptions
 for the purposes of allowing the installation  and  use  of  fossil-fuel
 equipment and building systems where such are installed and used:
   (i)  for  generation  of  emergency  back-up  power  and standby power
 systems;
   (ii) in a manufactured home as defined in subdivision seven of section
 six hundred one of the executive law; [or]
   (iii) in a building or part of a building that is used as  a  manufac-
 turing  facility,  commercial  food establishment, laboratory, car wash,
 laundromat, hospital, other medical facility,  critical  infrastructure,
 including but not limited to emergency management facilities, wastewater
 treatment  facilities, and water treatment and pumping facilities, agri-
 cultural building, fuel cell system, or crematorium, as such  terms  are
 defined by the code council; OR
   (IV)  IN A BUILDING OR PART OF A BUILDING THAT IS OWNED OR OCCUPIED BY
 A PERSON WHO HOLDS GENUINE  AND  SINCERE  RELIGIOUS  BELIEFS  AND  WHOSE
 HEALTH  AND  SAFETY  WILL  BE  JEOPARDIZED DUE TO THE PROHIBITION OF THE
 INSTALLATION OF FOSSIL-FUEL EQUIPMENT AND BUILDING  SYSTEMS  BECAUSE  OF
 SUCH GENUINE AND SINCERE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11851-01-3
 S. 7653                             2

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