Bill Text: NY A04980 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the "electric super highway act of 2016", requiring alternative fuels to be available for public use along the New York state thruway after November 1, 2016 and providing each recommended alternative fuel at least every one hundred twenty miles on both sides of the thruway; defines "alternative fuel".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-20 - print number 4980a [A04980 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04980-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4980--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 10, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Energy -- recommitted to the Committee on Energy in accordance with
          Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- 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:
     1    Section  1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "electric
     2  super highway act of 2016".
     3    § 2. Section 1-103 of the energy law is amended by adding a new subdi-
     4  vision 14 to read as follows:
     5    14. "Alternative fuel" shall  mean  ethanol,  methanol,  natural  gas,
     6  propane,  electricity  (including electricity from solar energy), hydro-
     7  gen, and any other fuel identified which is substantially  not  petrole-
     8  um-based,  which  is  consistent with the goals of protecting the safety
     9  and health of the public and minimizing emissions of air pollutants, and
    10  which  is  consistent  with  any  applicable  federal  alternative  fuel
    11  requirements.
    12    §  3.  The energy law is amended by adding a new section 5-129 to read
    13  as follows:
    14    § 5-129. Alternative fuels.   State energy  research  and  development
    15  authority shall provide the New York state thruway authority with a list
    16  of the most feasible alternative fuels, which shall number no fewer than
    17  three,  and  assist  the  authority  in implementing the requirements of
    18  section three hundred fifty-four of the public authorities law.
    19    § 4. Subdivision 10 of section 354 of the public authorities  law,  as
    20  amended  by  chapter  766  of  the  laws  of 1992, is amended to read as
    21  follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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