Senate Bill S2183A

                             
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                                  2183--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 15, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
   cations  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the energy  law  and  the  public  authorities  law,  in
   relation  to  the availability of alternative fuels along the New York
   state thruway
 
   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 "electric super highway act".
   § 2. Section 1-103 of the energy law is amended by adding a new subdi-
 vision 16 to read as follows:
   16. "ALTERNATIVE FUEL" SHALL  MEAN  ETHANOL,  BIO-DIESEL,  ELECTRICITY
 (INCLUDING ELECTRICITY FROM SOLAR ENERGY), GREEN HYDROGEN, AND ANY OTHER
 FUEL  IDENTIFIED  WHICH IS NOT PETROLEUM-BASED, WHICH IS CONSISTENT WITH
 THE GOALS OF PROTECTING THE SAFETY AND HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC AND MINIMIZ-
 ING EMISSIONS OF AIR  POLLUTANTS,  AND  WHICH  IS  CONSISTENT  WITH  THE
 CLIMATE  JUSTICE  AND EMISSION REDUCTION MANDATES IN CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED
 SIX OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND NINETEEN, AND SUCH SUCCESSORS IN LAW AND
 FUNCTION AS MAY ARISE FROM TIME TO  TIME,  AND  ANY  APPLICABLE  FEDERAL
 ALTERNATIVE FUEL REQUIREMENTS.
   §  3.  The energy law is amended by adding a new section 5-129 to read
 as follows:
   § 5-129. ALTERNATIVE FUELS.  THE NEW YORK STATE  ENERGY  RESEARCH  AND
 DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY SHALL PROVIDE THE NEW YORK STATE THRUWAY AUTHORITY
 WITH  A  LIST OF THE MOST FEASIBLE ALTERNATIVE FUELS, WHICH SHALL NUMBER
 NO FEWER THAN THREE,  AND  ASSIST  THE  AUTHORITY  IN  IMPLEMENTING  THE
 REQUIREMENTS  OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-FOUR OF THE PUBLIC AUTHORI-
 TIES LAW.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   § 4. Subdivision 10 of section 354 of the public authorities  law,  as
 amended  by  section  2 of part TT of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016, is
 amended to read as follows:
   10.  To  construct,  reconstruct or improve on or along the thruway in
 the manner  herein  provided,  suitable  facilities  for  gas  stations,
 restaurants,  and other facilities for the public, or to lease the right
 to construct, reconstruct or improve and operate such  facilities;  such
 facilities  shall  be publicly offered for leasing for operation, or the
 right to construct, reconstruct or improve and operate  such  facilities
 shall  be publicly offered under rules and regulations to be established
 by the authority, provided, however, that lessees operating such facili-
 ties at the time this act becomes effective, may reconstruct or  improve
 them or may construct additional like facilities, in the manner and upon
 such  terms  and  conditions  as the board shall determine; AND PROVIDED
 FURTHER, HOWEVER, THAT EACH SUCH FACILITY WHICH CONTAINS OR CONSISTS  OF
 A GAS STATION SHALL, BEGINNING NOVEMBER FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-NINE,
 INCLUDE  A  FACILITY  FOR  SELLING TO THE PUBLIC AN ALTERNATIVE FUEL, AS
 DEFINED IN SECTION 1-103 OF THE ENERGY LAW  AND  EACH  ALTERNATIVE  FUEL
 RECOMMENDED  TO  THE AUTHORITY BY THE NEW YORK STATE ENERGY RESEARCH AND
 DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY PURSUANT TO SECTION 5-129 OF THE ENERGY LAW  SHALL
 BE  MADE AVAILABLE AT INTERVALS OF NO MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED TWENTY MILES
 ON EACH SIDE OF THE THRUWAY;
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.