A 4486: Authorizes the department of motor vehicles to establish a program encouraging persons to scrap such person's petroleum or diesel motor vehicle in favor of a zero emission or electric motor vehicle by providing a five hundred dollar rebate for the purchase of such new zero emission or electric motor vehicle.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4486 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 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 establishing a reimbursement program encouraging persons to scrap such person's petroleum or diesel motor vehicle to purchase a zero emission or elec- tric motor vehicle The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new 2 section 224-b to read as follows: 3 § 224-b. Establishment of the scrap for electric vehicle program. 1. 4 For the purposes of this section, "eligible vehicle" means and includes 5 a new motor vehicle that: 6 (a) has four wheels; 7 (b) was manufactured for use primarily on public streets, roads and 8 highways; 9 (c) the powertrain of which has not been modified from the original 10 manufacturer's specifications; 11 (d) is rated at not more than eight thousand five hundred pounds gross 12 vehicle weight; and 13 (e) is propelled at least in part by an electric motor and associated 14 power electronics which provide acceleration torque to the drive wheels 15 sometime during normal vehicle operation, and that draws electricity 16 from a hydrogen fuel cell or from a battery that: 17 (i) has a capacity of not less than four kilowatt hours; and 18 (ii) is capable of being recharged from an external source of elec- 19 tricity. 20 2. The department shall develop a program to encourage persons to 21 scrap such person's petroleum or diesel motor vehicle to purchase a zero 22 emission or electric motor vehicle. Such program shall include a rebate EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06618-01-5 
 A. 4486 2 1 for purchasing such eligible vehicle provided that a rebate for purchas- 2 ing such eligible vehicle shall not exceed five hundred dollars. 3 3. The department shall determine and establish the forms to be 4 required to claim a rebate, the required documentation for establishing 5 eligibility for a rebate, and any other procedures and guidelines for 6 claiming a rebate pursuant to this section. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a 8 law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any 9 rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its 10 effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such 11 date.