Senate Bill S7648

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enacts into law components of legislation relating to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in construction

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Budget And Revenue Committee


  • 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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2025-S7648 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6566
Current Committee:
Senate Budget And Revenue
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1115, Tax L; amd §§119-ff & 119-gg, Gen Muni L

2025-S7648 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts into law components of legislation relating to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in construction; enacts the "building embodied carbon breakthrough act"; provides a sales tax exemption for certain low-carbon building materials (Part A); establishes a grant program for manufacturers of concrete for environmental product declarations (Part B)

2025-S7648 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7648 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7648
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 25, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Budget and Revenue
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law,  in  relation  to  providing  a  sales  tax
   exemption  for  certain  low-carbon  building  materials  (Part A); to
   establish a grant program for manufacturers of concrete  for  environ-
   mental product declarations (Part B); and to amend the general munici-
   pal  law, in relation to expanding eligibility for commercial property
   assessed clean energy financing resources (Part C)
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act enacts into law components of legislation relating
 to  reducing greenhouse gas emissions in construction. Each component is
 wholly contained within a Part identified as  Parts  A  through  C.  The
 effective  date for each particular provision contained within such Part
 is set forth in the last section of such  Part.  Any  provision  in  any
 section  contained  within  a  Part, including the effective date of the
 Part, which makes reference to a section "of this  act",  when  used  in
 connection  with  that particular component, shall be deemed to mean and
 refer to the corresponding section of the Part in  which  it  is  found.
 Section  three of this act sets forth the general effective date of this
 act.
 
                                  PART A
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "building embodied carbon breakthrough act".
   §  2.  Legislative findings and purpose. 1. The legislature finds that
 reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the building sector is a critical
 component of the state's climate goals under the Climate Leadership  and
 Community Protection Act.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10492-03-5
 S. 7648                             2
              

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