Authorizes the commissioner of motor vehicles to establish and administer a program authorizing eligible vehicles to operate in designated high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, notwithstanding vehicle occupancy.
Establishes the "accountability of costs for data centers act"; requires each electric corporation, gas corporation and municipality to establish an independent classification of service for large energy use facilities that is separate and distinct from other classifications of service; authorizes the department of public service to develop financial surety requirements.
Defines "portable solar generation device"; exempts portable solar generation devices from interconnection or net metering requirements; requires the state energy conservation construction code to allow for portable solar generation devices to be connected to a building's wiring through an electrical outlet.
Extends the date by which school districts must purchase and solely operate and maintain zero-emission school buses; authorizes certain school districts to apply for and be granted an annual one-year extension for compliance with zero-emission school bus requirements until 2045.
Establishes an optional twenty-five year retirement plan for certain public safety dispatchers, public safety telecommunicators, 911 operators, communications officers, police communication technicians, emergency services operators and emergency services dispatchers employed by the state, or a county or municipal emergency services department.
Imposes an excise tax on any taxpayer engaged in the trade or business of digital asset mining; provides that taxes, interest, and penalties collected or received from such taxes shall be used for prompt assistance to utility customers enrolled in energy affordability programs.
Requires any person, firm, association or corporation selling or leasing bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters in NYS to affix front and rear lights.
Requires the registration and issuance of license plates for bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters that can exceed twenty-eight miles per hour with battery assistance up to and exceeding seven hundred fifty watts.