Assembly Bill A9238A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the period of probable usefulness of zero-emission school buses

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A9238 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9292
Law Section:
Local Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1604, 1709 & 3602, Ed L; amd §11.00, Loc Fin L

2023-A9238 - Summary

Lowers the period of probable usefulness of zero-emission school buses from twelve years to eight years.

2023-A9238 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9238
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 22, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the local finance law, in  relation  to  the  period  of
   probable usefulness of zero-emission school buses
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 29-a of paragraph a of  section  11.00  of  the
 local  finance  law,  as  amended by section 8 of subpart A of part B of
 chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   29-a. Transit motor vehicles. The purchase of municipally owned  omni-
 bus  or  similar  surface  transit  motor  vehicles,  ten years; and the
 purchase of zero-emission  school  buses  owned  by  a  school  district
 defined  pursuant  to  paragraph  two of section 2.00 of this chapter, a
 city school district with a population of more than one hundred  twenty-
 five thousand inhabitants, or board of cooperative educational services,
 [twelve] EIGHT years.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14568-01-4



              

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2023-A9238A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9292
Law Section:
Local Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1604, 1709 & 3602, Ed L; amd §11.00, Loc Fin L

2023-A9238A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Lowers the period of probable usefulness of zero-emission school buses from twelve years to eight years.

2023-A9238A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  9238--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 22, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER, CONRAD, TAYLOR, WALSH, THIELE, SAYEGH --
   read  once  and referred to the Committee on Education -- reported and
   referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- reported  and  referred
   to the Committee on Rules -- Rules Committee discharged, bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to the Committee on Rules

 AN ACT to amend the education law and the local finance law, in relation
   to the period of probable usefulness of zero-emission school buses
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 21-a of section 1604 of the education  law,  as
 amended by section 6 of subpart A of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of
 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   21-a.  To  lease a motor vehicle or vehicles to be used for the trans-
 portation of the children of the district from a school district,  board
 of  cooperative  educational services or county vocational education and
 extension board or from any other source, under the conditions specified
 in this subdivision. No such agreement for the lease of a motor  vehicle
 or  vehicles  shall be for a term of more than one school year, provided
 that when authorized by a vote of the qualified voters of  the  district
 such  lease may have a term of up to five years, or [twelve] EIGHT years
 for the lease of zero-emission school buses as defined in section  thir-
 ty-six  hundred thirty-eight of this chapter. Where the trustee or board
 of trustees enter into a lease of a motor vehicle or  vehicles  pursuant
 to  this subdivision for a term of one school year or less, such trustee
 or board shall not be authorized to enter into  another  lease  for  the
 same  or an equivalent replacement vehicle or vehicles, as determined by
 the commissioner, without obtaining approval of the qualified voters  of
 the school district.
   §  2.  Paragraph  i of subdivision 25 of section 1709 of the education
 law, as amended by section 7 of subpart A of part B of chapter 56 of the
 laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   i. In addition to the authority granted in paragraph e of this  subdi-
 vision,  the  board  of  education  shall be authorized to lease a motor
 vehicle or vehicles to be used for the transportation of the children of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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