Establishes a moratorium on the adoption and/or implementation of certain local laws or ordinances, or certain rules or regulations, by a city with a population of one million or more, related to achieving certain reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5735
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 28, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental
Conservation
AN ACT in relation to establishing a moratorium on the adoption and/or
implementation of certain local laws or ordinances, or certain rules
or regulations, by a city with a population of one million or more,
related to achieving certain reductions in greenhouse gas emissions;
and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration there-
of
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. There is hereby established a moratorium on the adoption
2 and/or implementation of any local law or ordinance, or any rule or
3 regulation, by a city with a population of one million or more, related
4 to achieving certain reductions in greenhouse gas emissions which does
5 not exempt an industrial facility that produces one hundred percent
6 recycled paper products primarily from recycled paper derived from
7 covered buildings under such local law.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
9 have been in full force and effect on and after January 1, 2025 and
10 shall expire and be deemed repealed two hundred seventy days after the
11 adoption of a local law which re-authorizes, modifies or repeals local
12 law number 97 of the city of New York for the year 2019, as amended by
13 local law number 147 of the city of New York for the year 2019 and by
14 local law number 95 of the city of New York for the year 2020 designat-
15 ing annual building emission intensity limits and associated penalties
16 during the term commencing January 1, 2025 and terminating December 31,
17 2025, or any term commencing thereafter; provided that the mayor of a
18 city with a population of one million or more shall notify the legisla-
19 tive bill drafting commission upon the adoption of such local law in
20 order that the commission may maintain an accurate and timely effective
21 data base of the official text of the laws of the state of New York in
22 furtherance of effectuating the provisions of section 44 of the legisla-
23 tive law and section 70-b of the public officers law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05125-01-5
