Requires entities selling zero-emission school buses to provide an independent range estimate to prospective purchasers; requires the office of general services to promulgate regulations and to provide zero-emission school bus manufacturers with a list of parties that may provide independent range verification.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7593
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 1, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring entities
selling zero-emission school buses to provide an independent range
estimate to prospective purchasers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3638 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
3 8. (a) Any entity seeking to sell zero-emission school buses to school
4 districts or contractors for use in providing transportation services to
5 school districts shall be required to provide an independent range esti-
6 mate to prospective purchasers before selling such buses. Such range
7 estimate shall, at a minimum, provide the estimated range on different
8 terrain and in different weather conditions. The range estimate shall
9 also include the average level of battery degradation per ten thousand
10 miles traveled and consideration of whether the bus is stored outside or
11 in an indoor garage.
12 (b) The office of general services, in consultation with the New York
13 state energy research and development authority, shall, no later than
14 ninety days after the effective date of this subdivision, promulgate
15 regulations to implement paragraph (a) of this subdivision and shall
16 provide zero-emission school bus manufacturers with a list of parties
17 that may provide independent range verification in accordance with this
18 subdivision.
19 (c) Nothing in this subdivision shall be interpreted to have any
20 effect on completed sales or sales that are already in process while
21 regulations are being promulgated or prior to their effective date;
22 provided, however, that for any sales which, pursuant to this paragraph,
23 a range estimate is not required to be provided prior to such sale, if
24 the entity selling such zero-emission bus or buses later receives a
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 range estimate for the model or models sold, such entity shall provide
2 such range estimate or estimates to the district or contractor that
3 purchased such buses.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
