Senate Bill S9292A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the period of probable usefulness of zero-emission school buses

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Current Bill Status Via A9238 - Passed Senate


  • 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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2023-S9292 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9238
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1604, 1709 & 3602, Ed L; amd §11.00, Loc Fin L

2023-S9292 - Summary

Lowers the period of probable usefulness of zero-emission school buses from twelve years to eight years.

2023-S9292 - Sponsor Memo

2023-S9292 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9292
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 10, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  MAYER, MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT to amend the local finance law, in  relation  to  the  period  of
   probable usefulness of zero-emission school buses
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 29-a of paragraph a of  section  11.00  of  the
 local  finance  law,  as  amended by section 8 of subpart A of part B of
 chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   29-a. Transit motor vehicles. The purchase of municipally owned  omni-
 bus  or  similar  surface  transit  motor  vehicles,  ten years; and the
 purchase of zero-emission  school  buses  owned  by  a  school  district
 defined  pursuant  to  paragraph  two of section 2.00 of this chapter, a
 city school district with a population of more than one hundred  twenty-
 five thousand inhabitants, or board of cooperative educational services,
 [twelve] EIGHT years.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14568-01-4



              

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2023-S9292A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9238
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1604, 1709 & 3602, Ed L; amd §11.00, Loc Fin L

2023-S9292A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Lowers the period of probable usefulness of zero-emission school buses from twelve years to eight years.

2023-S9292A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S9292A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  9292--A
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 10, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  MAYER, MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local  Government
   -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Commit-
   tee   on  Finance  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the education law and the local finance law, in relation
   to the period of probable usefulness of zero-emission school buses
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 21-a of section 1604 of the education law, as
 amended by section 6 of subpart A of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of
 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   21-a. To lease a motor vehicle or vehicles to be used for  the  trans-
 portation  of the children of the district from a school district, board
 of cooperative educational services or county vocational  education  and
 extension board or from any other source, under the conditions specified
 in  this subdivision. No such agreement for the lease of a motor vehicle
 or vehicles shall be for a term of more than one school  year,  provided
 that  when  authorized by a vote of the qualified voters of the district
 such lease may have a term of up to five years, or [twelve] EIGHT  years
 for  the lease of zero-emission school buses as defined in section thir-
 ty-six hundred thirty-eight of this chapter. Where the trustee or  board
 of  trustees  enter into a lease of a motor vehicle or vehicles pursuant
 to this subdivision for a term of one school year or less, such  trustee
 or  board  shall  not  be authorized to enter into another lease for the
 same or an equivalent replacement vehicle or vehicles, as determined  by
 the  commissioner, without obtaining approval of the qualified voters of
 the school district.
   § 2. Paragraph i of subdivision 25 of section 1709  of  the  education
 law, as amended by section 7 of subpart A of part B of chapter 56 of the
 laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   i.  In addition to the authority granted in paragraph e of this subdi-
 vision, the board of education shall be  authorized  to  lease  a  motor
 vehicle or vehicles to be used for the transportation of the children of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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