Requires at least one electric charging station available to the public for every ten thousand New York state residents; requires construction and development of such stations to comply with article 8 of the labor law including payment of the prevailing wage.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A9856
SPONSOR: Epstein TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring at
least one electric charging station for every ten thousand New York
state residents
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To establish a minimum number of publicly available electric vehicle
charging stations per residents.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amends subdivision 9-a of section 1005 of the public authori-
ties law to mandate that the New York Power Authority be responsible for
the installation and operation of level three fast electric vehicle
charging stations per every 10,000 residents in the state. Also, adds a
prevailing wage requirement.
Section 2 provides the effective date
JUSTIFICATION:
Consumer surveys have shown that one of the biggest barriers to the
adoption of electric vehicles is inadequate charging infrastructure.
With overreliance on fossil fuels worsening our climate crisis, electric
vehicles must increasingly play a role in our daily lives. The New York
Power Authority has an existing statutory goal to install publicly
available electric vehicle chargers. This legislation attaches a minimum
number of fast chagrining stations for residents to ensure that the
resulting infrastructure truly increases the viability of electric vehi-
cle ownership in New York.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
To be determined.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Immediately after becoming law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9856
IN ASSEMBLY
April 24, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Energy
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring at
least one electric charging station for every ten thousand New York
state residents
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 9-a of section 1005 of the public authorities
2 law, as added by section 1 of part KK of chapter 58 of the laws of 2019,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 9-a. [As deemed feasible and advisable by the trustees, to] To design,
5 finance, develop, construct, install, lease, operate and maintain elec-
6 tric vehicle charging stations throughout the state for use by the
7 public, with at least one level three fast charging station for every
8 ten thousand New York state residents. The construction and development
9 of such electric vehicle charging stations shall comply with the
10 provisions of article eight of the labor law, including the payment of a
11 wage of not less than the prevailing wage in the locality where such
12 electric vehicle charging station is located. The authority shall annu-
13 ally post on their website a report on those activities undertaken
14 pursuant to this subdivision, including but not limited to: the total
15 number of electric vehicle charging stations in operation pursuant to
16 such authorization, the locations of such charging stations, and the
17 total costs to the authority associated with such activities.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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