Bill Text: NY A01798 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a tax credit for electric vehicle charging stations task force to recommend a program for a tax credit for commercial property owners who install electric vehicle charging stations on such property.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-3)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - referred to ways and means [A01798 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01798-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1798

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. COLTON, EPSTEIN, SAYEGH, DeSTEFANO, ROSENTHAL,
          WOERNER, DAVILA, STERN, LUPARDO, K. BROWN,  SIMON,  GANDOLFO  --  read
          once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

        AN  ACT to establish a tax credit for electric vehicle charging stations
          task force to recommend a program for  a  tax  credit  for  commercial
          property owners who install electric vehicle charging stations on such
          property;  and  providing  for  the repeal of such provisions upon the
          expiration thereof

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  A  tax credit for electric vehicle charging stations task
     2  force (referred to hereinafter as the "task force") to make  recommenda-
     3  tions  on  a program for a tax credit for commercial property owners who
     4  install electric vehicle charging stations on such  commercial  property
     5  is  hereby  established. Such tax credit program shall be made available
     6  to commercial property owners who charge an hourly rate for the  use  of
     7  such electric vehicle charging station.
     8    §  2.  a. Such task force shall consist of thirteen members that shall
     9  be appointed as follows: two members shall be appointed by the temporary
    10  president of the senate, two members shall be appointed by  the  speaker
    11  of the assembly, one member shall be appointed by the minority leader of
    12  the  senate, one member shall be appointed by the minority leader of the
    13  assembly and seven members shall be appointed by the governor.
    14    b. Members of the task force shall receive no compensation  for  their
    15  services  but  shall be reimbursed for their actual expenses incurred in
    16  the performance of their duties in the work of the task force.
    17    § 3. Appointments shall be made within sixty  days  of  the  effective
    18  date  of  this  act.  Any  vacancies in the membership of the task force
    19  shall be filled in the same manner provided for in the initial  appoint-
    20  ment.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 1798                             2

     1    §  4.  The  task  force  may consult with any organization, government
     2  entity, or person, in the  development  of  its  report  required  under
     3  section five of this act.
     4    §  5.  On or before one year after the effective date of this act, the
     5  task force shall submit to the governor and  the  legislature  a  report
     6  containing, but not limited to, the following recommendations:
     7    a. An agency to administer such tax credit program;
     8    b. Regulations required to regulate such tax credit program;
     9    c.  Regulations  on the hourly fees for such electric vehicle charging
    10  stations on commercial property to qualify the owner of such  commercial
    11  property for the tax credit program; and
    12    d.  Other  requirements  needed  for such commercial property owner to
    13  apply for such tax credit program.
    14    § 6. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  twenty-
    15  four  months  after  it  shall have become a law when upon such date the
    16  provisions of this act shall be deemed repealed.