New York A 8456: Enacts the "low-carbon building construction act"

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A08456 Summary:

BILL NOA08456A

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SAME ASSAME AS S07998-A

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SPONSORKelles

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COSPNSRGallagher, Simone

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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 NOA08456A

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05/16/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026referred to governmental operations

05/08/2026amend (t) and recommit to governmental operations

05/08/2026print number 8456a

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8456--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 16, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. KELLES, GALLAGHER -- read once and referred to
 the Committee on Governmental Operations -- recommitted to the Commit-
 tee 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 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,
 24 installation, maintenance, and disposal of construction products
 25 throughout the product's life;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11868-04-6

 A. 8456--A 2

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