New York A 6489: Relates to defraying costs of aggregating, processing and transporting agricultural products for producers and processors

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A06489 Summary:

BILL NOA06489 

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SAME ASSAME AS S03476-A

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SPONSORStirpe

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COSPNSRShimsky, Gallagher, Simon, Gonzalez-Rojas, Davila, Shrestha, Tapia, Simone, Brown K, Rosenthal,
 Forrest, Reyes, Raga, De Los Santos, Levenberg, Epstein, Valdez, Kelles, Carroll R, Bichotte
 Hermelyn, Burdick, Steck, Mitaynes, Benedetto, Lasher, Cunningham, Moreno

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §1885, amd §1854, Pub Auth L; add §99-ss, St Fin L; amd §11-104, Energy L; amd §378, Exec L; amd §224-f,
Lab L; amd §10-b, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974

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Enacts the bucks for boilers act, which creates a program to aid in transition of housing units to electric heat pumps and other high energy efficiency upgrades.

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BILL NOA06489 

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03/05/2025referred to energy

01/07/2026referred to energy

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6489

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 5, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE, SHIMSKY, GALLAGHER, SIMON, GONZALEZ-RO-
 JAS, DAVILA, SHRESTHA, TAPIA, SIMONE, K. BROWN, ROSENTHAL, FORREST,
 REYES, RAGA, DE LOS SANTOS -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Energy

 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, the state finance law, the
 energy law, the executive law, the labor law and the emergency tenant
 protection act of nineteen seventy-four, in relation to enacting the
 "bucks for boilers 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 "bucks for boilers act".
 3 § 2. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new section
 4 1885 to read as follows:
 5 § 1885. Bucks for boilers program. 1. The authority, in consultation
 6 with the department of public service, shall establish a program to aid
 7 in the transition of all existing housing units' heating and cooling
 8 from reliance on combusting oil and gas, to electric heat pumps and
 9 other high energy efficiency upgrades, systems and services.
 10 2. Using funds made available from the bucks for boilers fund as set
 11 forth in section ninety-nine-ss of the state finance law, the authority
 12 shall ensure that any building or household existing in a disadvantaged
 13 community, as such term is defined by the climate justice working group
 14 established under section 75-0111 of the environmental conservation law,
 15 or buildings housing formerly-incarcerated individuals, with a priority
 16 to buildings owned by low-income homeowners or rented to low-income
 17 tenants, shall be eligible for full-cost funding for the procurement and
 18 installation of equipment to be compliant with the energy efficiency
 19 standards set forth under section 11-104 of the energy law, including
 20 the procurement and installation of non-fossil fuel heating and cooling
 21 and hot water systems and other high energy efficiency systems, includ-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06828-05-5

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 1 ing electrical panel and wiring upgrades and induction or electric
 2 stoves. For purposes of this subdivision, installation shall also
 3 include bringing eligible housing into a state of good repair. A multi-
 4 family building shall be considered low-income if at least fifty percent
 5 of the households within such building have incomes less than sixty
 6 percent of area medium income. A multifamily building shall be consid-
 7 ered medium-income if at least fifty percent of households within such
 8 building have incomes between sixty percent and one hundred twenty
 9 percent of area median income.
 10 3. Using funds made available from the bucks for boilers fund as set
 11 forth in section ninety-nine-ss of the state finance law, the authority
 12 shall subsidize each residential housing building's transition through
 13 the following household income thresholds:
 14 (a) low-to-moderate income households with an income below one hundred
 15 twenty percent area median income