Senate Bill S685

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes existing building projects to continue when the fossil fuel ban takes effect

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Energy And Telecommunications 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-S685 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6327
Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Energy Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-104, Energy L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S9533, A10477

2025-S685 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes existing building projects to continue when the fossil fuel ban takes effect.

2025-S685 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S685 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    685
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
   cations
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the energy law, in relation to  authorizing existing
   building projects to continue when the fossil fuel ban takes effect

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.    Paragraph (b) of subdivision 6 of section 11-104 of the
 energy law, as added by section 1 of part RR of chapter 56 of  the  laws
 of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
   (b)  In addition to the foregoing, to support the goal of zero on-site
 greenhouse gas emissions and help achieve the state's clean  energy  and
 climate  agenda,  including  but not limited to greenhouse gas reduction
 requirements set forth within chapter one hundred six of the laws of two
 thousand nineteen, also known as the New York state  climate  leadership
 and  community  protection act, the code shall prohibit the installation
 of fossil-fuel equipment and building systems, in any new  building  not
 more than seven stories in height, except for a new commercial or indus-
 trial  building  greater than one hundred thousand square feet in condi-
 tioned floor area, on or after December thirty-first, two thousand twen-
 ty-five, and the code shall prohibit  the  installation  of  fossil-fuel
 equipment  and  building  systems,  in  all new buildings after December
 thirty-first, two thousand  twenty-eight.  SUCH  PROHIBITION  SHALL  NOT
 APPLY TO ANY NEW BUILDING FOR WHICH A SITE PLAN, TENTATIVE MAP OR SUBDI-
 VISION  PLAT HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE LOCAL PLANNING BOARD, OR FOR WHICH
 A BUILDING PERMIT HAS BEEN ISSUED, PRIOR TO SUCH DATES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02754-01-5

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