Senate Bill S8458

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enacts the "nuclear energy deployment act"

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules 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-S8458 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Add §1885, Pub Auth L; add §99-tt, St Fin L

2025-S8458 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "nuclear energy deployment act"; directs the New York state energy research and development authority, in consultation with the public service commission and the department of environmental conservation, to promulgate rules and regulations to facilitate the construction and operation of advanced nuclear reactors and to review and evaluate certain existing regulations and regulatory actions taken concerning nuclear energy; directs the New York state energy research and development authority to create the position of nuclear energy coordinator; directs the New York state energy research and development authority to administer grants from the nuclear energy deployment fund

2025-S8458 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8458 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8458
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               July 16, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law and the state finance law, in
   relation to enacting the "nuclear energy deployment act"
 
   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 "nuclear energy deployment act".
   § 2. The public authorities law is amended by  adding  a  new  section
 1885 to read as follows:
   § 1885. NUCLEAR ENERGY DEPLOYMENT. 1. IT IS THE INTENT OF THE LEGISLA-
 TURE THAT NUCLEAR ENERGY BE A VITAL PART OF RELIABLE CLEAN ENERGY GENER-
 ATION.
   2. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE
 FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (A)  "ADVANCED NUCLEAR REACTOR" MEANS A RANGE OF PROVEN AND INNOVATIVE
 NUCLEAR REACTOR TECHNOLOGIES ACROSS TWO GENERATIONS (GEN  III+  AND  GEN
 IV)  AND  INCLUDES  LARGE  LIGHT WATER REACTORS, SMALL MODULAR REACTORS,
 MICROREACTORS, AND NUCLEAR COGENERATION.
   (B) "ADVANCED NUCLEAR REACTOR PROJECT" MEANS  AN  ELECTRIC  GENERATION
 FACILITY RELYING ON AN ADVANCED NUCLEAR REACTOR TO GENERATE POWER.
   (C)  "APPLICANT"  MEANS  A PERSON OR AN ENTITY APPLYING FOR A LICENSE,
 PERMIT, OR OTHER FORM OF NUCLEAR COMMISSION PERMISSION OR APPROVAL UNDER
 10 CFR PART 50, 52, 53, 54 OR 55.
   (D) "COMBINED LICENSE" MEANS A LICENSE ISSUED BY THE  NUCLEAR  COMMIS-
 SION THAT AUTHORIZES A LICENSEE TO CONSTRUCT AND OPERATE A NUCLEAR POWER
 FACILITY,  SUCH  AS  A  NUCLEAR PLANT AT A SPECIFIC SITE, WITH SPECIFIED
 CONDITIONS.
   (E) "COMMISSION" MEANS THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13342-01-5
 S. 8458                             2
 
              

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