Expands the solar energy system equipment tax credit to cover solar energy system equipment installed in a community solar array; defines "community solar array" to mean a location other than a person's principal residence where solar energy system equipment is owned and installed for use in such person's principal residence.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5846--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 3, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Budget and Revenue --
recommitted to the Committee on Budget and Revenue 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 tax law, in relation to expanding the solar energy
system equipment tax credit to cover solar energy system equipment
installed in a community solar array
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs 3 and 4 of subsection (g-1) of section 606 of
2 the tax law, paragraph 3 as amended by chapter 128 of the laws of 2007
3 and paragraph 4 as amended by chapter 378 of the laws of 2005, are
4 amended to read as follows:
5 (3) Solar energy system equipment. The term "solar energy system
6 equipment" shall mean an arrangement or combination of components
7 utilizing solar radiation, which, when installed in a residence or in a
8 community solar array, produces energy designed to provide heating,
9 cooling, hot water or electricity for use in such residence or for use
10 in a residence connected to a community solar array. Such arrangement or
11 components shall not include equipment connected to solar energy system
12 equipment that is a component of part or parts of a non-solar energy
13 system or which uses any sort of recreational facility or equipment as a
14 storage medium. Solar energy system equipment that generates electricity
15 for use in a residence must conform to applicable requirements set forth
16 in section sixty-six-j of the public service law. Provided, however,
17 where solar energy system equipment is purchased and installed by a
18 condominium management association or a cooperative housing corporation,
19 for purposes of this subsection only, the term "ten kilowatts" in such
20 section sixty-six-j shall be read as "fifty kilowatts." For the
21 purposes of this subsection, "community solar array" shall mean a
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 location other than a person's principal residence where solar energy
2 system equipment is owned and installed for use in such person's princi-
3 pal residence.
4 (4) Multiple taxpayers. Where solar energy system equipment is
5 purchased and installed in a principal residence shared by two or more
6 taxpayers or in a community solar array, the amount of the credit allow-
7 able under this subsection for each such taxpayer shall be prorated
8 according to the percentage of the total expenditure for such solar
9 energy system equipment contributed by each taxpayer.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable
11 years commencing on and after the first of January next succeeding the
12 date on which it shall have become a law.
