Assembly Bill A7593

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires entities selling zero-emission school buses to provide an independent range estimate to prospective purchasers

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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
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A7593 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3638, Ed L

2025-A7593 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires entities selling zero-emission school buses to provide an independent range estimate to prospective purchasers; requires the office of general services to promulgate regulations and to provide zero-emission school bus manufacturers with a list of parties that may provide independent range verification.

2025-A7593 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7593
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 1, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  requiring  entities
   selling  zero-emission  school  buses  to provide an independent range
   estimate to prospective purchasers

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  3638 of the education law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
   8. (A) ANY ENTITY SEEKING TO SELL ZERO-EMISSION SCHOOL BUSES TO SCHOOL
 DISTRICTS OR CONTRACTORS FOR USE IN PROVIDING TRANSPORTATION SERVICES TO
 SCHOOL DISTRICTS SHALL BE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE AN INDEPENDENT RANGE ESTI-
 MATE TO PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS BEFORE SELLING  SUCH  BUSES.  SUCH  RANGE
 ESTIMATE  SHALL,  AT A MINIMUM, PROVIDE THE ESTIMATED RANGE ON DIFFERENT
 TERRAIN AND IN DIFFERENT WEATHER CONDITIONS. THE  RANGE  ESTIMATE  SHALL
 ALSO  INCLUDE  THE AVERAGE LEVEL OF BATTERY DEGRADATION PER TEN THOUSAND
 MILES TRAVELED AND CONSIDERATION OF WHETHER THE BUS IS STORED OUTSIDE OR
 IN AN INDOOR GARAGE.
   (B) THE OFFICE OF GENERAL SERVICES, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE NEW  YORK
 STATE  ENERGY  RESEARCH  AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, SHALL, NO LATER THAN
 NINETY DAYS AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION,  PROMULGATE
 REGULATIONS  TO  IMPLEMENT  PARAGRAPH  (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION AND SHALL
 PROVIDE ZERO-EMISSION SCHOOL BUS MANUFACTURERS WITH A  LIST  OF  PARTIES
 THAT  MAY PROVIDE INDEPENDENT RANGE VERIFICATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS
 SUBDIVISION.
   (C) NOTHING IN THIS SUBDIVISION  SHALL  BE  INTERPRETED  TO  HAVE  ANY
 EFFECT  ON  COMPLETED  SALES  OR SALES THAT ARE ALREADY IN PROCESS WHILE
 REGULATIONS ARE BEING PROMULGATED OR  PRIOR  TO  THEIR  EFFECTIVE  DATE;
 PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT FOR ANY SALES WHICH, PURSUANT TO THIS PARAGRAPH,
 A  RANGE  ESTIMATE IS NOT REQUIRED TO BE PROVIDED PRIOR TO SUCH SALE, IF
 THE ENTITY SELLING SUCH ZERO-EMISSION BUS  OR  BUSES  LATER  RECEIVES  A
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11102-01-5

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