Requires at least one electric charging station available to the public for every one hundred fifty 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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2220
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 20, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring at
least one electric charging station for every one hundred fifty thou-
sand 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 charging station for every one hundred fifty
8 thousand New York state residents. The construction and development of
9 such electric vehicle charging stations shall comply with the provisions
10 of article eight of the labor law, including the payment of a wage of
11 not less than the prevailing wage in the locality where such electric
12 vehicle charging station is located. The authority shall annually post
13 on their website a report on those activities undertaken pursuant to
14 this subdivision, including but not limited to: the total number of
15 electric vehicle charging stations in operation pursuant to such author-
16 ization, the locations of such charging stations, and the total costs to
17 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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