New York - Session 2025-2026
Title: Enacts the "upstate energy choice act"
Enacts the "upstate energy choice act"; limits the prohibition on the installation of fossil-fuel equipment and building systems in new construction to buildings located in a city with a population of one million or more; limits the requirement of establishing decarbonization action plans for state-owned facilities to facilities located in a city with a population of one million or more.
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| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-03 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2026-01-07 | Status | in_committee |
| 2026-01-07 | Latest Action | In Assembly Committee |
| Bill | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A 10723 | Relates to prohibiting the construction of certain energy storage systems within five hundred feet of a school or dwelling in N.Y. City | in_committee |
| A 10160 | Requires utilities accept public assistance payments | in_committee |
| S 120 | Prohibits termination of electricity or heat service during forecasts of extreme temperatures | in_committee |
| S 1553 | Provides that credits for excess electricity generated by customer-generators subject to net energy metering may be carried over and used to offset electricity used | in_committee |
| S 1668 | Relates to authorizing the New York state energy research and development authority to administer a program to provide grants related to enabling switching residences to electric heat pumps | in_committee |
| S 4357 | Authorizes vocational training, where practicable, to incarcerated individuals on the installation of solar hot water systems for the provision of hot water to correctional facilities | in_committee |
| S 4534 | Ensures proper administration and enforcement of the uniform fire prevention and building code and the state energy conservation construction code; and makes conforming technical changes | in_committee |
| S 5111 | Enacts the "just energy transition act" | in_committee |