Sen. Pete Harckham

Provides a period of probable usefulness for the acquisition, construction or reconstruction of or addition to a solar array or solar panel system, whether or not including buildings, land or rights in land, original furnishings, equipment, machinery or apparatus, or the replacement of such equipment, machinery or apparatus.

Maddy summaryThis bill updates New York's climate goals by officially setting a target to reach six gigawatts of statewide energy storage capacity by the year 2030. It achieves this by amending existing laws to include this specific storage requirement alongside other renewable energy goals, such as expanding solar and offshore wind power. The changes direct state agencies to establish programs ensuring that electricity providers procure enough energy storage to meet this new mandate. By codifying this target, the legislation clarifies the legal obligations for the state's energy transition plan without altering the underlying authority of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.

Requires all municipalities with a population of five thousand or more to implement SolarAPP plus by January first, two thousand twenty-six, for features supporting residential building permits for solar photovoltaic systems, energy storage systems paired with a residential solar energy system, main electric panel upgrades, and main electric panel derates.

Establishes a captive insurance program for commuter vans, black cars, ambulettes and paratransit vehicles, small school buses, and charter buses that are engaged in the business of carrying or transporting eight to twenty-four passengers for hire; pre-arranged for-hire vehicles and accessible vehicles; defines terms.

Maddy summaryThis bill updates state laws to strengthen the protection of potential inter-municipal water supplies stored in impoundments along streams. It directly affects water systems that serve multiple municipalities and ensures these specific water sources are classified with the highest level of water quality standards. The legislation also clarifies that small ponds within a stream's path are considered part of the stream and requires new water withdrawal permits to be valid for no more than ten years. These changes aim to provide clearer regulatory oversight for shared water resources without altering the fundamental definition of existing public water systems.

Provides for temporary authorization of certain registered nurses and licensed practical nurses to practice at children's camps between June fifteenth and September fifteenth of each year.

Provides the village of Ossining, Westchester county, with the ability to set restrictions on the hours of sale of alcoholic beverages at retail for on-premises consumption by local law, ordinance, or resolution.

Enacts the restriction of anticoagulant pesticide transactions for online and retail stores act to prohibit any person from selling, offering for sale or use, or distributing within the state, any second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide; prohibits the use of either a first-generation anticoagulant rodenticide or a second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide within five hundred feet of a wildlife habitat area.

Amends the constitution to delete the requirement that registration for purposes of voting be completed at least ten days before election day; provides that laws be made to adequately safeguard against deception in the exercise of the right of suffrage.

Provides for the inclusion of a faculty member on the board of trustees of community colleges elected by and from among the faculty and staff of the college.