A6318 • 2025

Extends the time period for recovery of energy performance contract costs incurred by school districts

Education Energy

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Sponsor: Judy Griffin
Last action: 2026-06-02
Official status: Assembly Floor Calendar
Effective date: Not listed

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Extends the time period for recovery of energy performance contract costs incurred by school districts

Extends the time period for recovery of energy performance contract costs incurred by school districts Extends the time period from eighteen years to twenty-five years that a school shall be guaranteed recovery of energy performance contract costs from energy savings incurred by school districts over that time period.

What This Bill Does

Extends the time period for recovery of energy performance contract costs incurred by school districts Extends the time period from eighteen years to twenty-five years that a school shall be guaranteed recovery of energy performance contract costs from energy savings incurred by school districts over that time period.

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Bill History

2026-06-02 Assembly
REPORTED
2026-06-02 Assembly
RULES REPORT CAL.342
2026-06-02 Assembly
ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.342
2026-06-02 Assembly
SUBSTITUTED BY S1986
2026-06-01 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
2026-05-30 Assembly
REFERENCE CHANGED TO WAYS AND MEANS
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO EDUCATION
2025-03-04 Assembly
REFERRED TO EDUCATION

Official Summary Text

Extends the time period for recovery of energy performance contract costs incurred by school districts
Extends the time period from eighteen years to twenty-five years that a school shall be guaranteed recovery of energy performance contract costs from energy savings incurred by school districts over that time period.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          6318

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      March 4, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. GRIFFIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. STERN
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  extending  the  time
          period  for  guaranteed  recovery of energy performance contract costs
          from energy savings incurred by school districts

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1. Subclause C of clause (i) of subparagraph 5 of paragraph i
     2  of subdivision 6 of section 3602 of the education  law,  as  amended  by
     3  section  1  of  part F of chapter 383 of the laws of 2001, is amended to
     4  read as follows:
     5    C. The energy  performance  contractor  shall  guarantee  recovery  of
     6  contract  costs  from  energy  savings  realized  by the school district
     7  during the term of the energy  performance  contract,  which  shall  not
     8  exceed [eighteen] TWENTY-FIVE years.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04732-01-5