Relates to requiring the commissioner of education to create a competition among SUNY and CUNY schools with prizes going to the schools that produce the most cost-efficient method of reducing CO2 emissions; the top three schools shall receive a cash prize which shall be used to improve environmental programs at the university.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2204
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 15, 2025
___________
Introduced by M. of A. RA, ANGELINO -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to require the commissioner of education to create a state-wide
competition among SUNY and CUNY schools with prizes going to the
schools that produce the most cost-efficient method of reducing CO2
emissions
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The commissioner of education shall create and sponsor a
state-wide competition among teams of students who attend the state
university of New York or the city university of New York designed to
challenge and inspire the states' brightest and most inventive college
students to produce the most cost-efficient method of reducing CO2 emis-
sions. The awards for the teams competing in the competition:
First Place: $100,000 to the winning university with an agreement that
the award be used to improve environmental programs at the university.
Second Place: $50,000 for the university with an agreement that the
award be used to improve environmental programs at the university.
Third Place: $10,000 for the university with an agreement that the
award be used to improve environmental programs at the university.
ยง 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05627-01-5
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