Assembly Bill A2167

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring businesses to meet certain green requirements to be eligible for the START-UP NY program

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A2167 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
Economic Development Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §433, Ec Dev L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A10641
2019-2020: A4133
2021-2022: A4426
2023-2024: A3055

2025-A2167 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring businesses to meet certain green requirements to be eligible for the START-UP NY program; businesses operating in newly constructed buildings shall be powered by at least thirty-five percent alternative energy; businesses operating in already existing buildings shall utilize at least forty-five percent less electricity than neighboring businesses of similar size and business type.

2025-A2167 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2167
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. RA -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the economic development law, in relation  to  requiring
   businesses  to  meet certain green requirements to be eligible for the
   START-UP NY program
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 433 of the economic development
 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:
   (H) IF A BUSINESS IS OR WILL BE OPERATING OUT OF A  NEWLY  CONSTRUCTED
 BUILDING  THE  BUSINESS SHALL DEMONSTRATE THAT IT WILL, WITHIN ITS FIRST
 YEAR OF OPERATION AS A  PARTICIPANT  IN  THE  START-UP  NY  PROGRAM,  BE
 POWERED  BY  AT  LEAST THIRTY-FIVE PERCENT ALTERNATIVE ENERGY INCLUDING,
 BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WIND ENERGY, SOLAR ENERGY AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY.  IF
 A  BUSINESS IS OR WILL BE OPERATING OUT OF AN ALREADY EXISTING BUILDING,
 SUCH BUSINESS SHALL, WITHIN ITS FIRST YEAR OF OPERATION AS A PARTICIPANT
 IN THE START-UP NY PROGRAM, UTILIZE AT  LEAST  FORTY-FIVE  PERCENT  LESS
 ELECTRICITY  THAN  NEIGHBORING  BUSINESSES  OF SIMILAR SIZE AND BUSINESS
 TYPE WHO ARE NOT PART OF THE START-UP NY PROGRAM.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05653-01-5

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