Bill Text: NY S02457 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the mechanical insulation energy savings program providing a grant to localities that have completed a qualified audit and a tax credit to approved private owners.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-17 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S02457 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S02457-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2457

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 17, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations

        AN  ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to establishing
          the mechanical insulation energy savings program

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

     1    Section  1.  The  public  authorities  law  is amended by adding a new
     2  section 1885 to read as follows:
     3    § 1885. Mechanical insulation energy savings program. 1.  Definitions.
     4  For purposes of this section:
     5    (a)  "Applicant"  shall mean any locality or private owner of a build-
     6  ing, or buildings, with  a  potential  need  for  mechanical  insulation
     7  building upgrades.
     8    (b)  "Locality" shall mean any political subdivision, as defined under
     9  the general municipal law, or school district.
    10    (c) "Mechanical insulation" shall mean insulation  materials,  facings
    11  and  accessory  products  used  for  thermal requirements for mechanical
    12  piping and equipment, hot and cold applications,  heating,  ventilation,
    13  and air-conditioning applications.
    14    (d)  "Qualified  audit"  shall mean a mechanical insulation audit of a
    15  building by a qualified contractor, which identifies missing, damaged or
    16  improperly installed mechanical insulation. Such audit shall include  an
    17  estimate  of  installation  costs  along  with estimated energy and cost
    18  savings.
    19    (e) "Qualified mechanical  insulation  expenditures"  shall  mean  the
    20  purchase  of  insulation  materials, facings and accessory products used
    21  for thermal requirements for mechanical piping and  equipment,  hot  and
    22  cold applications, and heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning appli-
    23  cations  and  all  associated  labor costs properly allocable to on-site
    24  preparation, assembly and original installation, so long as performed by

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06367-02-5
        S. 2457                             2

     1  a qualified contractor and in accordance with sections two hundred twen-
     2  ty, two hundred twenty-b and two hundred twenty-i of the labor law.
     3    (f) "Qualified contractor" shall mean an insulation contractor that is
     4  party  to  an  apprenticeship  agreement,  as  defined  in section eight
     5  hundred sixteen of the labor law, which is in good standing, appropriate
     6  for the type and scope of work to be performed,  including  the  minimum
     7  American  Society  of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engi-
     8  neers Standard 90.1-2007, providing the energy  standard  for  buildings
     9  except low-rise residential buildings.
    10    2. The authority shall establish an audit process whereby an applicant
    11  may request a qualified audit. Such audit, if approved by the authority,
    12  shall be provided to the applicant at no cost.
    13    3.  As  part  of  this  program,  the authority shall issue grants for
    14  applicants that have completed a qualified audit, which will  cover  one
    15  hundred percent of the qualified mechanical insulation expenditures.
    16    4.  The  total amount of funding available, in the aggregate, for this
    17  program shall be twenty million dollars annually.
    18    5. The authority shall establish rules and regulations to  create  the
    19  mechanical  insulation  energy savings program and create guidelines for
    20  preferred applicants, buildings and energy savings.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2026.