S 2183: Enacts the "Greener Highways Act", requiring alternative fuels to be available for public use along the New York state thruway after November 1, 2029 and providing each recommended alternative fuel at least every one hundred twenty miles on both sides of the thruway; defines "alternative fuel".

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2183 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 15, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni- cations AN ACT to amend the energy law and the public authorities law, in relation to the availability of alternative fuels along the New York state thruway The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "electric super highway act". 3 § 2. Section 1-103 of the energy law is amended by adding a new subdi- 4 vision 16 to read as follows: 5 16. "Alternative fuel" shall mean ethanol, methanol, natural gas, 6 propane, electricity (including electricity from solar energy), hydro- 7 gen, and any other fuel identified which is substantially not petrole- 8 um-based, which is consistent with the goals of protecting the safety 9 and health of the public and minimizing emissions of air pollutants, and 10 which is consistent with any applicable federal alternative fuel 11 requirements. 12 § 3. The energy law is amended by adding a new section 5-129 to read 13 as follows: 14 § 5-129. Alternative fuels. The New York state energy research and 15 development authority shall provide the New York state thruway authority 16 with a list of the most feasible alternative fuels, which shall number 17 no fewer than three, and assist the authority in implementing the 18 requirements of section three hundred fifty-four of the public authori- 19 ties law. 20 § 4. Subdivision 10 of section 354 of the public authorities law, as 21 amended by section 2 of part TT of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016, is 22 amended to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06151-01-5 
 S. 2183 2 1 10. To construct, reconstruct or improve on or along the thruway in 2 the manner herein provided, suitable facilities for gas stations, 3 restaurants, and other facilities for the public, or to lease the right 4 to construct, reconstruct or improve and operate such facilities; such 5 facilities shall be publicly offered for leasing for operation, or the 6 right to construct, reconstruct or improve and operate such facilities 7 shall be publicly offered under rules and regulations to be established 8 by the authority, provided, however, that lessees operating such facili- 9 ties at the time this act becomes effective, may reconstruct or improve 10 them or may construct additional like facilities, in the manner and upon 11 such terms and conditions as the board shall determine; and provided 12 further, however, that each such facility which contains or consists of 13 a gas station shall, beginning November first, two thousand twenty-five, 14 include a facility for selling to the public an alternative fuel, as 15 defined in section 1-103 of the energy law and each alternative fuel 16 recommended to the authority by the New York state energy research and 17 development authority pursuant to section 5-129 of the energy law shall 18 be made available at intervals of no more than one hundred twenty miles 19 on each side of the thruway; 20 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.