STATE OF NEW YORK
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4752
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 22, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. PARKER, HOYLMAN, SERRANO -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing a
clean air account; and making an appropriation therefor
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 92-s of the state
2 finance law, as amended by section 1 of part U of chapter 58 of the laws
3 of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
4 a. The comptroller shall establish the following separate and distinct
5 accounts within the environmental protection fund:
6 (i) solid waste account;
7 (ii) parks, recreation and historic preservation account;
8 (iii) open space account;
9 (iv) climate change mitigation and adaptation account; [and]
10 (v) environmental protection transfer account[.]; and
11 (vi) clean air account.
12 § 2. Paragraph (f) of subdivision 6 of section 92-s of the state
13 finance law is relettered paragraph (g) and a new paragraph (f) is added
14 to read as follows:
15 (f) Moneys from the clean air account shall be available, pursuant to
16 appropriation, for clean air account projects according to the follow-
17 ing:
18 (i) Thirty-five million dollars to upgrade school boilers. The commis-
19 sioner of education shall establish a procedure to determine the priori-
20 ty of which school boilers shall be replaced;
21 (ii) Five million dollars for grants to schools in clean air non-at-
22 tainment areas to pay for the increased cost of ultra low sulfur diesel;
23 and
24 (iii) Ten million dollars to fund the initial costs associated with
25 conversion to boilers or furnaces that use bio-fuel.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 3. The sum of fifty million dollars ($50,000,000), or so much there-
2 of as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the department of
3 environmental conservation out of any moneys in the state treasury in
4 the general fund to the credit of the clean air account, not otherwise
5 appropriated, and made immediately available, for the purpose of carry-
6 ing out the provisions of this act. Such moneys shall be payable on the
7 audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or approved
8 by the commissioner of the department of environmental conservation in
9 the manner prescribed by law.
10 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
