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NY A05526
Bill
Status
2/14/2025
Primary Sponsor
Karl Brabenec
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AI Summary
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Amends the energy law and executive law to add a religious exemption to New York's ban on fossil fuel equipment and building systems in new construction
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Allows installation and use of fossil-fuel equipment in buildings owned or occupied by persons with "genuine and sincere religious beliefs" whose health and safety would be jeopardized by the prohibition
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Adds this exemption to the existing list of exemptions that already includes emergency backup power, manufactured homes, manufacturing facilities, hospitals, laboratories, and crematoriums
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Modifies both Section 11-104 of the energy law and Section 378 of the executive law to include the new religious exemption
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Takes effect immediately upon passage
Legislative Description
Provides an exemption for the purposes of allowing the installation and use of fossil-fuel equipment and building systems where such are installed and used in a building or part of a building that is owned or occupied by a person who holds genuine and sincere religious beliefs and whose health and safety will be jeopardized due to the prohibition of the installation of fossil-fuel equipment and building systems because of such genuine and sincere religious beliefs.
Last Action
referred to energy
1/7/2026