New York S 7998: Extends the authorization of the county of Onondaga to impose an additional rate of sales and compensating use taxes

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S07998 Summary:

BILL NOS07998A

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SAME ASSAME AS A08456-A

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SPONSORKAVANAGH

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COSPNSRCLEARE

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §382-c, Exec L

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Enacts the "low-carbon building construction act"; relates to requiring construction of any building, addition or renovation greater than 25,000 square feet meet certain standards intended to reduce the embodied carbon emissions associated with the construction.

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BILL NOS07998A

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05/15/2025REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

05/07/2026AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

05/07/2026PRINT NUMBER 7998A

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7998--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 May 15, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. KAVANAGH, CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed,
 and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing,
 Construction and Community Development -- recommitted to the Committee
 on Housing, Construction and Community Development in accordance with
 Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
 reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to enacting the "low-car-
 bon building construction 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 "low-carbon building construction act".
 3 § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 382-c to
 4 read as follows:
 5 § 382-c. Low-carbon building construction. 1. For the purposes of
 6 this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
 7 (a) "covered products" means:
 8 (i) structural concrete products, including ready mix, shotcrete,
 9 precast, and concrete masonry units;
 10 (ii) reinforcing steel products, including rebar and post tensioning
 11 tendons;
 12 (iii) structural steel products, including hot rolled sections, hollow
 13 sections, plate, open-web steel joists, and metal deck;
 14 (iv) engineered wood products including mass timber products such as
 15 laminated veneer lumber, parallel strand lumber, cross-laminated timber,
 16 dowel laminated timber, nail laminated timber, glulam laminated timber,
 17 glulam beams and columns, and structural sawn lumber; and
 18 (v) other materials the department designates by rule and reviews
 19 every three years;
 20 (b) "design professional of record" means a licensed architect or
 21 engineer;
 22 (c) "embodied carbon emissions" means the amount of greenhouse gas
 23 emissions associated with the extraction, manufacturing, transport,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11868-03-6

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 1 installation, maintenance, and disposal of construction products
 2 throughout the product's life;
 3 (d) "global warming potential" means the potential climate change
 4 impact of a product or process as measured by a life-cycle assessment.
 5 It is the metric for tracking embodied carbon emissions and is reported
 6 in units of carbon dioxide equivalent;
 7 (e) "product and facility-specific environmental product declarations"
 8 means a type III environmental product declaration, as defined by the
 9 international organization for standardization standard 14025, repres-
 10 enting a single product from a single manufacturing facility; and
 11 (f) "whole building life-cycle assessments" means a cradle to grave
 12 assessment covering life-cycle stages A-C as defined by the interna-
 13 tional organization for standardization standard 21931-1, excluding
 14 modules B6 and B7, or similarly robust whole building life-cycle assess-
 15 ment methods or whole life carbon assessment standards that evaluate the
 16 environmental impacts of a building including, at a minimum, global
 17 warming potential.
 18 2. The code shall require construction of any building, addition, or
 19 renovati