Provides for a state workforce fuel reduction & conservation program which will develop and assist in implementing strategies to reduce fuel consumption by the state's motor vehicle fleet and to reduce solo trips between work and home by state employees; requires reporting to the governor and legislature.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5776--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 4, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. KAVANAGH, COLTON, DINOWITZ, ENGLEBRIGHT, LUPARDO,
RIVERA, FINCH, THIELE, BICHOTTE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
CROUCH, GOTTFRIED, PEOPLES-STOKES, PERRY, SALADINO, SCHIMEL -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations --
recommitted to the Committee on Governmental Operations 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 "state workforce
fuel reduction and conservation 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 "state workforce fuel reduction and conservation act".
3 § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 201-b to
4 read as follows:
5 § 201-b. State workforce fuel reduction and conservation act. 1.
6 There shall be created within the office of general services a state
7 workforce fuel reduction and conservation program, which shall have the
8 purpose of developing and assisting in the implementation of strategies
9 to reduce gasoline consumption by the state's motor vehicular fleet, and
10 to reduce gasoline consumption through solo motor vehicle trips between
11 home and the workplace by state employees and state contractors.
12 2. The office of general services, in coordination with the governor's
13 office of employee relations and the office for technology, shall issue
14 a report to the governor and the legislature on or before November
15 fifteenth, two thousand seventeen, setting forth a specific plan to
16 reduce the number of solo motor vehicle trips between home and the work-
17 place by state employees and state contractors. Such plan shall include,
18 at a minimum, proposals to promote the use of transportation other than
19 via single occupancy vehicles by state employees to and from the work-
20 place, and while at the workplace: proposals for the development,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 promotion and implementation of a solo trip reduction program designed
2 to encourage state employees and state contractors to use an alternative
3 mode of commuting such as car or van pools, mass transit, biking or
4 walking; authorizing state agencies and authorities to permit alterna-
5 tive work schedules or telecommuting for all state employees and
6 contractors where doing so would result in a reduction in home-workplace
7 travel without decreasing employee efficiency; and a proposal to reim-
8 burse state employees and contractors for mass transit costs where doing
9 so results in a net reduction in solo motor vehicle trips.
10 3. The office of general services shall review the size of the state's
11 vehicular fleet, the policies governing the use of such fleet and the
12 actual use of such fleet, and shall issue to the governor and the legis-
13 lature on or before November fifteenth, two thousand seventeen, a
14 specific plan to reduce the use of such fleet in order to reduce gaso-
15 line consumption.
16 § 3. Each state agency covered by section 201-b of the executive law,
17 establishing a program to increase the average passenger occupancy per
18 vehicle in commuting trips between home and the workplace, shall report
19 to the office of general services on the status of such program within
20 one hundred eighty days of the effective date of this act, and on the
21 fifteenth day of January in each year thereafter.
22 § 4. Each state agency that maintains its own vehicular fleet shall
23 perform a fuel efficiency audit of such fleet and shall provide such
24 audit to the office of general services within one hundred eighty days
25 of the effective date of this act.
26 § 5. The department of motor vehicles shall develop programs to
27 educate the driving public on "smart driving," trip reduction and vehi-
28 cle maintenance practices that are designed to maximize vehicle fuel
29 efficiency. The department shall issue a report to the governor and the
30 legislature on or before November 15, 2017 on the status of such
31 program.
32 § 6. Nothing in this act shall impair any agreements which may be made
33 as a result of collective bargaining or other negotiations between the
34 state and its affected employee organizations.
35 § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.
