Directs the office of general services in consultation with the department of environmental conservation and the New York state energy research and development authority to prepare a state fleet procurement plan for the purchase or lease of state agency vehicles to ensure state agency vehicles will be zero emission vehicles over a certain period of time.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2412--B
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 19, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. FAHY, WOERNER, GOTTFRIED, SIMON, EPSTEIN, GALEF,
DICKENS, CARROLL, THIELE, COLTON, ENGLEBRIGHT, KELLES, DINOWITZ,
SILLITTI, STERN, SANTABARBARA, LUNSFORD, GLICK, OTIS, L. ROSENTHAL,
McDONALD, SEAWRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Energy -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported and referred to
the Committee on Ways and Means -- recommitted to the Committee on
Ways and Means in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the purchase or lease
of zero emission vehicles for state-owned vehicle fleets
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 201-a of the executive law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
3 10. The office of general services shall, on or before December thir-
4 ty-first, two thousand twenty-two, prepare, in consultation with the
5 department of environmental conservation and the New York state energy
6 research and development authority, a state fleet procurement plan for
7 purchase or lease of state agency vehicles to ensure that (i) at least
8 twenty-five percent of state agency vehicles, including ten percent of
9 state agency medium and heavy duty vehicles, will be zero emission vehi-
10 cles by no later than December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-five
11 and (ii) at least fifty percent of state agency vehicles, including
12 twenty-five percent of state agency medium and heavy duty vehicles, will
13 be zero emission vehicles by no later than December thirty-first, two
14 thousand thirty. All state agency passenger vehicles shall be zero emis-
15 sion vehicles by no later than December thirty-first, two thousand thir-
16 ty-five, and all state agency medium and heavy duty vehicles shall be
17 zero emission vehicles by no later than December thirty-first, two thou-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 sand forty, unless a zero emission vehicle is not feasible for a partic-
2 ular application. By January first, two thousand thirty, all passenger
3 vehicles purchased by or for the state or any agency or public authority
4 thereof shall be zero emission vehicles. By January first, two thousand
5 thirty-five, all medium and heavy duty vehicles purchased by or for the
6 state or any agency or public authority thereof shall be zero emission
7 vehicles where feasible. For purposes of this subdivision, "zero emis-
8 sion vehicle" shall mean a vehicle powered by means of a battery or fuel
9 cell or a combination thereof, or another source of power, that produces
10 zero exhaust emissions of any greenhouse gas, criteria pollutant or
11 precursor pollutant under any and all possible operational modes and
12 conditions.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
