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Home/Bills/A 1796New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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A 1796: Requires in every shopping center or facility that has over one hundred off street parking spaces that at least one percent of the spaces, or five such spaces, whichever is less, shall be a handicapped parking space equipped with an electric vehicle charging station.

New York · Assembly · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified January 8, 2026

What A 1796 does, verified January 8, 2026

The bill requires shopping centers or facilities with more than 100 off-street parking spaces to designate a minimum of one percent of such spaces or five spaces, whichever is less, as handicapped spaces equipped with electric vehicle charging stations available for public use. This provision aims to promote accessibility and sustainability by incorporating electric vehicle charging infrastructure into existing handicapped parking spaces.

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Last action: referred to transportation (2026-01-07)Alert me
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Jan. 07, 2026referred to transportation
Jan. 14, 2025referred to transportation
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 14, 2025 · 229 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1796 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring that a certain amount of handicapped parking spaces at certain shop- ping centers or facilities are equipped with electric vehicle charging stations The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1203-c of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows: 3 2-a. Any person, firm or corporation owning a shopping center or 4 facility covered by subdivision one of this section which has more than 5 one hundred off street parking spaces shall designated a minimum of one 6 percent of such parking spaces or five such spaces, whichever is less, 7 as a handicapped space that is equipped with an electric vehicle charg- 8 ing station that is available for public use. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 10 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02240-01-5 
Text of A 1796 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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