Add §1885, amd §1854, Pub Auth L; add §99-ss, St Fin L; amd §11-104, Energy L; amd §378, Exec L; amd §224-f,
Lab L; amd §10-b, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974
Enacts the bucks for boilers act, which creates a program to aid in transition of housing units to electric heat pumps and other high energy efficiency upgrades.
STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
3476--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 27, 2025
___________
Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, CLEARE, FERNANDEZ, GONZALEZ, HARCKHAM,
HINCHEY, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, MAY, MYRIE, SALAZAR, SANDERS, SERRANO
-- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Energy and Telecommunications -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, the state finance law, the
energy law, the executive law, the labor law and the emergency tenant
protection act of nineteen seventy-four, in relation to enacting the
"bucks for boilers 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 "bucks for boilers act".
3 § 2. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new section
4 1885 to read as follows:
5 § 1885. Bucks for boilers program. 1. The authority, in consultation
6 with the department of public service, shall establish a program to aid
7 in the transition of all existing housing units' heating and cooling
8 from reliance on combusting oil and gas, to electric heat pumps and
9 other high energy efficiency upgrades, systems and services.
10 2. Using funds made available from the bucks for boilers fund as set
11 forth in section ninety-nine-ss of the state finance law, the authority
12 shall ensure that any building or household existing in a disadvantaged
13 community, as such term is defined by the climate justice working group
14 established under section 75-0111 of the environmental conservation law,
15 or buildings housing formerly-incarcerated individuals, with a priority
16 to buildings owned by low-income homeowners or rented to low-income
17 tenants, shall be eligible for full-cost funding for the procurement and
18 installation of equipment to be compliant with the energy efficiency
19 standards set forth under section 11-104 of the energy law, including
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06828-04-5
S. 3476--A 2
1 the procurement and installation of non-fossil fuel heating and cooling
2 and hot water systems and other high energy efficiency systems, includ-
3 ing electrical panel and wiring upgrades and induction or electric
4 stoves. For purposes of this subdivision, installation shall also
5 include bringing eligible housing into a state of good repair. A multi-
6 family building shall be considered low-income if at least fifty percent
7 of the households within such building have incomes less than sixty
8 percent of area medium income. A multifamily building shall be consid-
9 ered medium-income if at least fifty percent of households within such
10 building have incomes between sixty percent and one hundred twenty
11 percent of area median income.
12 3. Using funds made available from the bucks for boilers fund as set
13 forth in section ninety-nine-ss of the state finance law, the authority
14 shall subsidize each residential housing building's transition through
15 the following household income thresholds:
16 (a) low-to-moderate income households with an income below one hundred
17 twenty percent area median income shall receive one hundred percent of
18 the cost of the project;
19 (b) medium-income households with an income between one hundred twenty
20 percent and one hundred eighty percent area medium income shall receive
21 eighty percent of the cost of the project; and
22 (c) high-income households with an income over one hundred eighty
23 percent of area medium income shall receive fifty percent of the cost of
24 the project.
25 4. Using funds made available from the bucks for boilers fund as set
26 forth in section ninety-nine-ss of the state finance law, the authority
27 shall create a program to pay up to fifty thousand dollars per unit for
28 any privately owned residential housing for the procurement and instal-
29 lation of equipment to be compliant with the energy efficiency standards
30 set forth under section 11-104 of the energy law, including the procure-
31 ment and installation of non-fossil fuel heating and cooling and hot
32 water systems and other high energy efficiency systems, including elec-
33 trical panel and wiring upgrades and induction or electric stoves, as
34 well as to ensure that such housing is in a state of good repair. Funds
35 from the bucks for boilers fund shall be provided to households or their
36 contractors in advance of the commencement of such procurement and
37 installation provided that the authority has reviewed and approved such
38 projects.
39 5. Using funds made available from the bucks for boilers fund as set
40 forth in section ninety-nine-ss of the state finance law, the authority
41 shall subsidize the procurement and installation of equipment to be
42 compliant with the energy efficiency standards set forth under section
43 11-104 of the energy law, including the procurement and installation of
44 non-fossil fuel heating and cooling and hot water systems and other high
45 energy efficiency systems, for all public housing units throughout the
46 state, as well as to ensure that such housing is in a state of good
47 repair.
48 6. Using funds made available from the bucks for boilers fund as set
49 forth in section ninety-nine-ss of the state finance law, the authority
50 shall establish affordability programs to pay any additional costs of
51 utility bills in order to ensure that no low-to-moderate income house-
52 holds face a higher cost for heating and cooling that may be incurred as
53 a result of conversion to electric heat pumps and/or other high energy
54 efficiency equipment for heating and cooling. For the purposes of this
55 subdivision "low-to-moderate income households" shall mean households
56 with annual incomes at or below eighty percent of the area median income
S. 3476--A 3
1 of the county or metro area where they reside. These affordability
2 programs shall also assist households with annual incomes above eighty
3 percent of the area median income of the county or metro area to help
4 defray additional costs but only where funds are available after priori-
5 tization of households with annual incomes at or below eighty percent of
6 the area median income of the county or metro area where they reside,
7 and with prioritization with any such funds or assistance for compar-
8 atively lower-income over higher-income households within the distrib-
9 ution of households over eighty percent of the area median income of the
10 county or metro area where they reside.
11 7. The authority shall include requirements that to be eligible for
12 receiving funds under this program, building owners:
13 (a) are prohibited for a period of five years following the completion
14 of work under this program from rent increases for temporary major capi-
15 tal improvement and individual apartment improvements for buildings
16 undertaking energy efficiency, boiler, furnace, stove replacements,
17 electrical panel, electrical wiring or related work stemming directly
18 from the building's adherence to requirements enacted pursuant to this
19 section; and
20 (b) shall extend the lease of tenants for no less than five years
21 following the completion of work under this program.
22 8. (a) The authority shall promulgate requirements for eligibility to
23 receive funds under this program which prohibit buildings from initiat-
24 ing eviction proceedings, fail to renew a lease or otherwise seek to
25 remove a tenant from housing accommodation, except:
26 (i) in situations of non-payment of rent;
27 (ii) where the tenant is violating a substantial obligation of the
28 tenancy and has failed to cure such violation within ten days;
29 (iii) where the tenant is committing or permitting a nuisance in the
30 housing accommodation;
31 (iv) where the tenant's occupancy or use or permitted use of the hous-
32 ing accommodation is in violation of the law; or
33 (v) where the tenant has unreasonably refused the landlord's access to
34 the housing accommodation for the purpose of making repairs and improve-
35 ments.
36 (b) A rent increase is presumed to be unreasonable and not a basis for
37 eviction if it exceeds either three percent of the previous rental
38 amount or one and one-half times the annual percentage change in the
39 consumer price index for the relevant region, whichever is higher.
40 9. The authority, in consultation with the department of corrections
41 and community supervision, shall include requirements that to be eligi-
42 ble for receiving funds over fifty thousand dollars under this program,
43 all work done in the procurement and installation of non-fossil fuel
44 heating and cooling systems on state-owned properties or in properties
45 that receive subsidies from the state shall, to the greatest extent
46 possible, provide training and hiring of formerly-incarcerated individ-
47 uals.
48 10. (a) Nothing in this program shall alter the rights or benefits,
49 privileges, including but not limited to terms and conditions of employ-
50 ment, civil service status, and collective bargaining unit membership,
51 of any current employees of the authority.
52 (b) Nothing in this program shall result in: (i) the discharge,
53 displacement, or loss of position, including partial displacement such
54 as a reduction in hours of non-overtime work, wages, or employment bene-
55 fits; (ii) the impairment of existing collective bargaining agreements;
56 or (iii) the transfer of existing duties and functions.
S. 3476--A 4
1 11. The authority shall ensure that the bucks for boilers program does
2 not enable landlords to shift energy costs to their tenants by requiring
3 tenants to pay for heating costs after electrification where such land-
4 lords had been paying tenants' heating costs prior to electrification.
5 12. The authority shall issue relevant guidance for providing funding
6 under this program, including but not limited to guidance on programs
7 offered by the authority which provide funding to assist with compliance
8 with changes in subdivisions seven and eight of section 11-104 of the
9 energy law made by the chapter of the laws of two thousand twenty-five
10 that added this section. The authority shall make such information
11 available by engaging and paying for large-scale advertising, mailings,
12 door-to-door canvassing, community outreach, programming in schools, and
13 anything else the authority deems necessary and reasonable to ensure the
14 public is fully aware and that a wide understanding that such programs
15 exist, including rights and responsibilities of landlords and tenants,
16 is achieved in the public in all regions and demographics of the state.
17 13. Using funds made available from the bucks for boilers fund as set
18 forth in section ninety-nine-ss of the state finance law, the authority
19 shall administer a program to provide grants, loans or other services,
20 based on standards and guidelines established by the authority, for the
21 costs related to enabling fuel-switching for residences with propane or
22 fuel-oil heating systems to efficient electric heat pumps, including but
23 not limited to, clean energy measures, energy efficiency measures, resi-
24 liency measures, heating and cooling, health and safety, and other
25 related energy improvements and expenses, as well as to ensure such
26 housing is in a state of good repair.
27 § 3. Section 1854 of the public authorities law is amended by adding a
28 new subdivision 27 to read as follows:
29 27. All revenues generated pursuant to regulations or actions taken by
30 the department of public service, the authority or any other state enti-
31 ty, pursuant to section eighteen hundred eighty-five of this title,
32 shall be placed into a segregated authority funding account, established
33 pursuant to section eighteen hundred sixty-a of this title, prior to
34 programmatic or administrative allocation, and shall not be commingled
35 with other authority funds. Within thirty days following receipt of
36 revenues generated pursuant to regulations or actions pursuant to
37 section eighteen hundred eighty-five of this title, the authority shall
38 transfer from such segregated authority funding account to the bucks for
39 boilers fund established pursuant to section ninety-nine-ss of the state
40 finance law.
41 § 4. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-ss to
42 read as follows:
43 § 99-ss. Bucks for boilers fund. 1. There is hereby established in the
44 joint custody of the commissioner of taxation and finance and the state
45 comptroller a special fund to be known as the "bucks for boilers fund".
46 2. (a) The bucks for boilers fund shall consist of moneys received by
47 the state pursuant to subdivision twenty-seven of section eighteen
48 hundred fifty-four of the public authorities law, and all other moneys
49 appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any other fund or
50 source pursuant to law including the annual deposit of four billion
51 dollars by the president of the New York state energy research and
52 development authority. Moneys of the account shall be expended for the
53 purposes of providing up-front financial assistance to residential
54 building owners and renters to convert their existing space or water
55 heating equipment to energy efficient zero-emissions equipment or build-
56 ing systems and energy efficiency and resiliency measures including but
S. 3476--A 5
1 not limited to: (i) purposes which are consistent with the scoping plan
2 prepared pursuant to section 75-0103 of the environmental conservation
3 law; (ii) measures which prioritize such conversions and measures in
4 disadvantaged communities; (iii) measures which prioritize residential
5 buildings on delivered fuels such as propane and heating oil; (iv)
6 financial assistance for the cost of upgrading dilapidated housing to a
7 state of good repair; (v) removal of fossil fuel combustion equipment
8 and building systems; and (vi) administrative and implementation costs,
9 program design, and other associated costs.
10 (b) Moneys of such account shall not be expended for the purposes of:
11 (i) providing financial assistance to residential building owners or
12 renters to convert their existing space or water heating equipment to
13 electric resistance or biofuel equipment; (ii) the installation or
14 purchase of carbon capture technologies or equipment; or (iii) the
15 installation or purchase of energy efficient gas boilers.
16 3. Moneys in the bucks for boilers fund shall be kept separate from
17 and shall not be commingled with any other moneys in the custody of the
18 comptroller or the commissioner of taxation and finance. Provided,
19 however, that any moneys of the fund not required for immediate use may,
20 at the discretion of the comptroller, in consultation with the director
21 of the division of the budget, be invested by the comptroller in obli-
22 gations of the United States or of the state. The proceeds of any such
23 investment shall be retained by the fund as assets to be used for
24 purposes of the fund.
25 § 5. Subdivision 6 of section 11-104 of the energy law is amended by
26 adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
27 (c) In addition to paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subdivision, to
28 support the goal of zero on-site greenhouse gas emissions and help
29 achieve the state's clean energy and climate agenda, including but not
30 limited to greenhouse gas reduction requirements set forth within chap-
31 ter one hundred six of the laws of two thousand nineteen, also known as
32 the New York state climate leadership and community protection act, the
33 code shall prohibit prohibited emissions, in any existing building not
34 more than seven stories in height, except for existing commercial or
35 industrial buildings greater than one hundred thousand square feet in
36 conditioned floor area, on or after December thirty-first, two thousand
37 twenty-nine, and the code shall prohibit prohibited emissions, in all
38 existing buildings after December thirty-first, two thousand thirty-
39 four.
40 § 6. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 7 of section 11-104 of the energy
41 law, as added by section 1 of part RR of chapter 56 of the laws of 2023,
42 is amended and a new paragraph (a-1) is added to read as follows:
43 (a-1) The provisions set forth in paragraph (c) of subdivision six of
44 this section shall not be construed as prohibiting the continued use and
45 maintenance of fossil-fuel equipment and building systems, including as
46 related to cooking equipment, installed prior to the effective date of
47 the applicable prohibition.
48 (b) In addition, in effectuating the provisions set forth in [para-
49 graph] paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision six of this section the
50 code shall include exemptions for the purposes of allowing prohibited
51 emissions and the installation and use of fossil-fuel equipment and
52 building systems where such are installed and used:
53 (i) for generation of emergency back-up power and standby power
54 systems;
55 (ii) in a manufactured home as defined in subdivision seven of section
56 six hundred one of the executive law; or
S. 3476--A 6
1 (iii) in a building or part of a building that is used as a manufac-
2 turing facility, commercial food establishment, laboratory, car wash,
3 laundromat, hospital, other medical facility, critical infrastructure,
4 including but not limited to emergency management facilities, wastewater
5 treatment facilities, and water treatment and pumping facilities, agri-
6 cultural building, fuel cell system, or crematorium, as such terms are
7 defined by the code council.
8 § 7. Subdivision 8 of section 11-104 of the energy law is amended by
9 adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
10 (c) "Prohibited emissions" shall mean the emission of twenty-five
11 kilograms or more of carbon dioxide per million British thermal units of
12 energy, as determined by the United States energy information adminis-
13 tration, provided however, the emission of twenty-five kilograms or more
14 of carbon dioxide per million British thermal units of energy or more
15 shall not mean "prohibited emissions" where such emissions occur in
16 connection with a device that contains no connection to a building's gas
17 supply line or fuel oil piping system, is used on an intermittent basis,
18 and is not used to supply a building with heat or hot water.
19 § 8. Paragraphs c and e of subdivision 19 of section 378 of the execu-
20 tive law, as added by section 3 of part RR of chapter 56 of the laws of
21 2023, are amended and two new paragraphs a-1 and b-1 are added to read
22 as follows:
23 a-1. To support the goal of zero on-site gas emissions and help
24 achieve the state's clean energy and climate agenda, including but not
25 limited to greenhouse gas reduction requirements set forth within chap-
26 ter one hundred six of the laws of two thousand nineteen, also known as
27 the New York state climate leadership and community protection act, the
28 uniform code shall prohibit prohibited emissions, in any existing build-
29 ing not more than seven stories in height, except for existing commer-
30 cial or industrial buildings greater than one hundred thousand square
31 feet in conditioned floor area, on or after December thirty-first, two
32 thousand twenty-nine, and the uniform code shall prohibit prohibited
33 emissions, in all existing buildings on or after December thirty-first,
34 two thousand thirty-four.
35 b-1. The provisions set forth in paragraph a-1 of this subdivision
36 shall not be construed as prohibiting the continued use and maintenance
37 of fossil-fuel equipment and building systems, including as related to
38 cooking equipment, installed prior to the effective date of the applica-
39 ble prohibition.
40 c. In addition, in effectuating the provisions set forth in [para-
41 graph] paragraphs a and a-1 of this subdivision the code shall include
42 exemptions for the purposes of allowing prohibited emissions and the
43 installation and use of fossil-fuel equipment and building systems where
44 such systems are installed and used:
45 (i) for generation of emergency back-up power and standby power
46 systems;
47 (ii) in a manufactured home as defined in subdivision seven of section
48 six hundred one of [the executive law] this chapter; or
49 (iii) in a building or part of a building that is used as a manufac-
50 turing facility, commercial food establishment, laboratory, car wash,
51 laundromat, hospital, other medical facility, critical infrastructure,
52 including but not limited to emergency management facilities, wastewater
53 treatment facilities, and water treatment and pumping facilities, agri-
54 cultural building, fuel cell system, or crematorium, as such terms are
55 defined by the code council.
S. 3476--A 7
1 e. Exemptions included in the uniform code pursuant to this subdivi-
2 sion shall be periodically reviewed by the code council to [assure]
3 ensure that they continue to effectuate the purposes of [paragraph]
4 paragraphs a and a-1 of this subdivision and subparagraph three of para-
5 graph b of subdivision two of section three hundred seventy-one of this
6 article to the fullest extent feasible.
7 § 9. Paragraph g of subdivision 19 of section 378 of the executive law
8 is amended by adding a new subparagraph (iii) to read as follows:
9 (iii) "Prohibited emissions" shall mean the emission of twenty-five
10 kilograms or more of carbon dioxide per million British thermal units of
11 energy, as determined by the United State energy information adminis-
12 tration, provided however, the emission of twenty-five kilograms or more
13 of carbon dioxide per million British thermal units of energy or more
14 shall not mean "prohibited emissions" where such emissions occur in
15 connection with a device that contains no connection to a building's gas
16 supply line or fuel oil piping system, is used on an intermittent basis,
17 and is not used to supply a building with heat or hot water.
18 § 10. Section 224-f of the labor law, as amended by chapter 100 of the
19 laws of 2025, is amended to read as follows:
20 § 224-f. Wage requirements for certain climate risk-related and energy
21 transition projects and bucks for boilers projects. 1. For purposes of
22 this section, a "covered climate risk-related and energy transition
23 project" means a construction project that receives at least one hundred
24 thousand dollars of funds from the New York climate action fund climate
25 investment account established pursuant to section ninety-nine-qq of the
26 state finance law or the climate change adaptation fund established
27 pursuant to section ninety-seven-m of the state finance law and a
28 "covered bucks for boilers project" means a construction project that
29 receives at least one hundred thousand dollars of funds from the bucks
30 for boilers fund established pursuant to section ninety-nine-ss of the
31 state finance law.
32 2. A covered climate risk-related and energy transition project and a
33 covered bucks for boilers project shall be subject to prevailing wage
34 requirements in accordance with sections two hundred twenty, two hundred
35 twenty-a, two hundred twenty-b, two hundred twenty-i, two hundred twen-
36 ty-three, and two hundred twenty-four-b of this article, provided that a
37 covered climate risk-related and energy transition project and a covered
38 bucks for boilers project may still otherwise be considered a covered
39 project pursuant to section two hundred twenty or two hundred twenty-
40 four-a of this article if it meets the definition therein.
41 3. For purposes of this section, a covered climate risk-related and
42 energy transition project and a covered bucks for boilers project shall
43 exclude:
44 a. Privately owned construction work performed under a pre-hire
45 collective bargaining agreement between an owner or developer and a bona
46 fide building and construction trades labor organization which has
47 established itself, and/or its affiliates, as the collective bargaining
48 representative for all persons who will perform work on such a project,
49 and which provides that only contractors and subcontractors who sign a
50 pre-negotiated agreement with the labor organization can perform work on
51 such a project; or
52 b. Construction work on one- or two-family dwellings where the proper-
53 ty is the owner's primary residence, or construction work performed on
54 property where the owner of the property owns no more than four dwelling
55 units; or
S. 3476--A 8
1 c. Construction work performed on a multiple residence and/or ancil-
2 lary amenities or installations that is wholly privately owned in any of
3 the following circumstances:
4 (i) where no less than twenty-five percent of the residential units
5 are affordable and shall be retained subject to an anticipated regulato-
6 ry agreement with a local, state, or federal governmental entity, or a
7 not-for-profit entity with an anticipated formal agreement with a local,
8 state, or federal governmental entity for purposes of providing afforda-
9 ble housing in a given locality or region provided that the period of
10 affordability for a residential unit deemed affordable under the
11 provisions of this paragraph shall be for no less than fifteen years
12 from the date of construction; or
13 (ii) where no less than thirty-five percent of the residential units
14 involves the provision of supportive housing services for vulnerable
15 populations provided that such units are subject to an anticipated regu-
16 latory agreement with a local, state, or federal governmental entity.
17 4. As a condition of receiving funds from the New York climate action
18 fund climate investment account established pursuant to section ninety-
19 nine-qq of the state finance law or from the climate change adaptation
20 fund established pursuant to section ninety-seven-m of the state finance
21 law for a covered climate risk-related and energy transition project or
22 the bucks for boilers fund established pursuant to section ninety-nine-
23 ss of the state finance law for a covered bucks for boilers project, the
24 owner or developer of such covered climate risk-related and energy tran-
25 sition project or covered bucks for boilers project, or a third party
26 acting on such owner's or developer's behalf, shall agree to enter into
27 a labor peace agreement with at least one bona fide labor organization
28 either:
29 a. where such bona fide labor organization is actively representing
30 non-construction employees who will be working within the covered
31 climate risk-related and energy transition project or covered bucks for
32 boilers project once built; or
33 b. upon notice by a bona fide labor organization that is attempting to
34 represent such non-construction employees.
35 5. For purposes of this section "labor peace agreement" means an
36 agreement between an owner and/or developer and labor organization that,
37 at a minimum, protects the state's proprietary interests by prohibiting
38 labor organizations and members from engaging in picketing, work stop-
39 pages, boycotts, and any other economic interference.
40 6. The owner or developer using funds from the New York climate action
41 fund climate investment account established pursuant to section ninety-
42 nine-qq of the state finance law or from the climate change adaptation
43 fund established pursuant to section ninety-seven-m of the state finance
44 law for a covered climate risk-related and energy transition project or
45 the bucks for boilers fund established pursuant to section ninety-nine-
46 ss of the state finance law for a covered bucks for boilers project
47 pursuant to this section shall:
48 a. require the use of apprenticeship agreements as defined by article
49 twenty-three of this chapter; or for industries without apprenticeship
50 programs, require the use of workforce training, preferably in conjunc-
51 tion with a bona fide labor organization; and
52 b. consider use of registered pre-apprenticeship direct entry programs
53 for the recruitment of local and/or disadvantaged workers.
54 7. For purposes of this section, the "fiscal officer" shall be deemed
55 to be the commissioner. The enforcement of any covered climate risk-re-
56 lated and energy transition project or covered bucks for boilers project
S. 3476--A 9
1 under this section shall be subject to the requirements of sections two
2 hundred twenty, two hundred twenty-a, two hundred twenty-b, two hundred
3 twenty-i, two hundred twenty-three, two hundred twenty-four-b of this
4 article, and section two hundred twenty-seven of this chapter and within
5 the jurisdiction of the fiscal officer; provided, however, nothing
6 contained in this section shall be deemed to construe any covered
7 climate risk-related and energy transition project or covered bucks for
8 boilers project as otherwise being considered public work pursuant to
9 this article.
10 8. The fiscal officer may issue rules and regulations governing the
11 provisions of this section. Violations of this section shall be grounds
12 for determinations and orders pursuant to section two hundred twenty-b
13 of this article.
14 9. For any building service work on a covered climate risk-related and
15 energy transition project or covered bucks for boilers project, prevail-
16 ing wage shall be paid consistent with article nine of this chapter.
17 10. Any public entity receiving at least five million dollars in funds
18 from the New York climate action fund climate investment account estab-
19 lished pursuant to section ninety-nine-qq of the state finance law or
20 from the climate change adaptation fund established pursuant to section
21 ninety-seven-m of the state finance law or the bucks for boilers fund
22 established pursuant to section ninety-nine-ss of the state finance law
23 for a project which involves the construction, reconstruction, alter-
24 ation, maintenance, moving, demolition, excavation, development or other
25 improvement of any building, structure or land, shall be subject to
26 section two hundred twenty-two of this article.
27 § 11. Subdivision (a) of section 10-b of section 4 of chapter 576 of
28 the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant protection act of
29 nineteen seventy-four, is amended by adding a new paragraph 14 to read
30 as follows:
31 14. (i) prohibit temporary major capital improvement increases and
32 individual apartment improvement increases for buildings undertaking
33 energy efficiency, boiler, furnace, stove replacements, electrical
34 panel, electrical wiring or related work pursuant to the bucks for boil-
35 ers program established pursuant to section eighteen hundred eighty-five
36 of the public authorities law; and
37 (ii) require the extension of the lease of tenants for no less than
38 five years following the completion of work under such program.
39 § 12. This act shall take effect immediately.
