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Assembly Bill A8998

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enacts the "dollars for diesels act" relating to financial incentives for the retirement of certain heavy- and medium-duty vehicles

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2025-A8998 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §19-0333, En Con L

2025-A8998 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "dollars for diesels act"; directs the commissioner of environmental conservation, in consultation with the New York state energy research and development authority, to establish and administer a program to provide financial incentives to owners of heavy- and medium-duty vehicles of a model year two thousand ten or older to retire and replace such vehicles with new heavy- or medium-duty vehicles of model year two thousand twenty-four or newer that meet or exceed applicable emission standards.

2025-A8998 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8998
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              August 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   enacting  the  "dollars  for diesels act" relating to financial incen-
   tives for the retirement of certain heavy- and medium-duty vehicles

   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 "dollars for diesels act".
   § 2. The environmental conservation law is amended  by  adding  a  new
 section 19-0333 to read as follows:
 § 19-0333. DOLLARS FOR DIESELS PROGRAM.
   1. DEFINITIONS: WHEN USED IN THIS SECTION:
   A.  "HEAVY-DUTY  VEHICLE"  MEANS  ANY  VEHICLE  POWERED BY DIESEL FUEL
 HAVING A GROSS WEIGHT OF GREATER THAN TWENTY-SIX THOUSAND POUNDS.
   B. "MEDIUM-DUTY VEHICLE" MEANS ANY  VEHICLE  POWERED  BY  DIESEL  FUEL
 HAVING  A  GROSS  WEIGHT OF GREATER THAN FOURTEEN THOUSAND POUNDS BUT NO
 MORE THAN TWENTY-SIX THOUSAND POUNDS.
   2. THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE NEW  YORK  STATE  ENERGY
 RESEARCH  AND  DEVELOPMENT  AUTHORITY,  SHALL ESTABLISH AND ADMINISTER A
 PROGRAM TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL INCENTIVES TO OWNERS OF HEAVY- AND  MEDIUM-
 DUTY  VEHICLES  OF  A MODEL YEAR TWO THOUSAND TEN OR OLDER TO RETIRE AND
 REPLACE SUCH VEHICLES WITH NEW HEAVY- OR MEDIUM-DUTY VEHICLES  OF  MODEL
 YEAR  TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR OR NEWER THAT MEET OR EXCEED THE APPLICA-
 BLE EMISSION STANDARDS.
   3. FOR A VEHICLE TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE VEHICLE  RETIREMENT  INCENTIVE
 UNDER  THIS  SECTION,  SUCH  VEHICLE  SHALL BE A HEAVY-DUTY VEHICLE OR A
 MEDIUM-DUTY VEHICLE, AND SHALL HAVE BEEN REGISTERED IN THE STATE OF  NEW
 YORK  FOR  AT  LEAST THREE CONSECUTIVE YEARS PRECEDING THE MODEL YEAR OF
 THE REPLACEMENT VEHICLE. REGISTRATION SHALL BE  CONTINUOUS  AND  ACTIVE,
 WITH THE VEHICLE IN OPERABLE CONDITION AND PART OF A FUNCTIONING FLEET.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13430-02-5

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