Bill Text: NY S01232 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Provides for a state workforce fuel reduction & conservation program which will develop and assist in implementing strategies to reduce fuel consumption by the state's motor vehicle fleet and to reduce solo trips between work and home by state employees; requires reporting to the governor and legislature.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-13 - PRINT NUMBER 1232A [S01232 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01232-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         1232--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 9, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on Investigations  and
          Government  Operations  in  accordance  with  Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the executive law, in relation to the "state workforce
          fuel reduction and conservation act"
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "state workforce fuel reduction and conservation act".
     3    § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a  new  section  201-b  to
     4  read as follows:
     5    §  201-b.  State  workforce  fuel  reduction  and conservation act. 1.
     6  There shall be created within the office of  general  services  a  state
     7  workforce  fuel reduction and conservation program, which shall have the
     8  purpose of developing and assisting in the implementation of  strategies
     9  to reduce gasoline consumption by the state's motor vehicular fleet, and
    10  to  reduce gasoline consumption through solo motor vehicle trips between
    11  home and the workplace by state employees and state contractors.
    12    2. The office of general services, in coordination with the governor's
    13  office of employee relations and the office for technology, shall  issue
    14  a  report  to  the  governor  and  the legislature on or before November
    15  fifteenth, two thousand seventeen, setting  forth  a  specific  plan  to
    16  reduce the number of solo motor vehicle trips between home and the work-
    17  place by state employees and state contractors. Such plan shall include,
    18  at  a minimum, proposals to promote the use of transportation other than
    19  via single occupancy vehicles by state employees to and from  the  work-
    20  place,  and  while  at  the  workplace:  proposals  for the development,
    21  promotion and implementation of a solo trip reduction  program  designed
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04410-02-6
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