New York S 7288: Relates to including environmental pollution mitigation within the authorized purposes of industrial development agencies

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S07288 Summary:

BILL NOS07288A

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SAME ASSAME AS A07980-A

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SPONSORBYNOE

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COSPNSRHARCKHAM, KAVANAGH, MYRIE

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§858 & 854, Gen Muni L

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Includes environmental pollution mitigation projects within the authorized purposes of industrial development agencies.

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BILL NOS07288A

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04/08/2025REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

05/20/20251ST REPORT CAL.1155

05/21/20252ND REPORT CAL.

05/22/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/06/2025AMENDED ON THIRD READING 7288A

06/13/2025COMMITTED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

03/10/20261ST REPORT CAL.500

03/11/20262ND REPORT CAL.

03/12/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/05/2026COMMITTED TO RULES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 7288--A
 Cal. No. 1155

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. BYNOE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government --
 reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second
 report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,
 retaining its place in the order of third reading

 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to permitting
 industrial development agencies to accept applications for consider-
 ation of financial incentives for projects which will include environ-
 mental pollution mitigation

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Legislative Intent. The Legislature hereby finds that the
 2 purpose of industrial development agencies is to advance job opportu-
 3 nities, general prosperity, and the health and standard of living for
 4 the people of the State of New York.
 5 This Legislature recognizes that "the placement of polluting indus-
 6 tries near low-income and majority-minority neighborhoods is a pattern
 7 repeated across the country" and that such structural racism leads to
 8 gross health disparities in the African-American and Hispanic communi-
 9 ties, especially when it comes to respiratory illness. The prevalence of
 10 these illnesses in turn inhibits these communities from working to build
 11 wealth and achieve financial security and therefore sows long term
 12 economic hardship and perpetuates race-based income disparities.
 13 This Legislature holds that industrial development agencies' use of
 14 financial incentives should include implementing environmental pollution
 15 mitigation as it relates to any projects which would construct improve-
 16 ments, renovations, and/or purchase low or zero-emission vehicles to
 17 better protect the communities in which they operate against pollution
 18 and contamination. The necessity to incentivize environmental renovation
 19 and improvements in industrial facilities is especially acute as to
 20 incentivize environmental renovation and improvements in industrial

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11537-02-5

 S. 7288--A 2

 1 facilities as minority communities within New York state suffer dispro-
 2 portionately from exposure to industrial pollution and contamination.
 3 Therefore, the utilization of industrial development agencies' financial
 4 incentives for this purpose would significantly benefit the economic and
 5 physical health of all New York state residents, but it is especially
 6 important and essential to minority communities which regrettably bear
 7 the burden of a disproportionate concentration of heavily polluting
 8 industries.
 9 § 2. The opening paragraph of section 858 of the general municipal
 10 law, as amended by section 6 of part X of chapter 59 of the laws of
 11 2021, is amended to read as follows:
 12 The purposes of the agency shall be to promote, develop, encourage and
 13 assist in the acquiring, constructing, reconstructing, improving, imple-
 14 menting environmental pollution mitigation, maintaining, equipping and
 15 furnishing industrial, manufacturing, warehousing, commercial, resea