S8001 • 2025

Authorizes the New York state environmental facilities corporation to award grants and loans to non-public entities for certain water quality projects

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Sponsor: Leroy Comrie
Last action: 2026-06-05
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Authorizes the New York state environmental facilities corporation to award grants and loans to non-public entities for certain water quality projects

Authorizes the New York state environmental facilities corporation to award grants and loans to non-public entities for certain water quality projects Authorizes the New York state environmental facilities corporation to award grants and loans to community water systems and non-community water systems for water quality projects that relate to the removal of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

What This Bill Does

Authorizes the New York state environmental facilities corporation to award grants and loans to non-public entities for certain water quality projects Authorizes the New York state environmental facilities corporation to award grants and loans to community water systems and non-community water systems for water quality projects that relate to the removal of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

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Bill History

2026-06-05 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2026-03-26 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-03-25 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-03-24 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.585
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS
2025-06-13 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2025-05-29 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2025-05-28 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2025-05-27 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1286
2025-05-15 Senate
REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Official Summary Text

Authorizes the New York state environmental facilities corporation to award grants and loans to non-public entities for certain water quality projects
Authorizes the New York state environmental facilities corporation to award grants and loans to community water systems and non-community water systems for water quality projects that relate to the removal of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

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

                                          8001

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      May 15, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
          and Commissions

        AN  ACT  to amend the public authorities law, in relation to authorizing
          the New York  state  environmental  facilities  corporation  to  award
          grants  and  loans  to  non-public  entities for certain water quality
          projects

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of section 1283 of the public authorities
     2  law, as amended by chapter 744 of the laws of 1970, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    2.   FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "PERFLUOROALKYL AND POLYFLUORO-
     5  ALKYL SUBSTANCES" OR "PFAS" SHALL HAVE THE SAME MEANING  AS  IN  SECTION
     6  37-0203 OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION LAW.
     7    3.  THE  CORPORATION MAY AWARD GRANTS AND LOANS TO NON-PUBLIC ENTITIES
     8  FOR WATER QUALITY PROJECTS THAT RELATE TO THE REMOVAL OF  PERFLUOROALKYL
     9  AND  POLYFLUOROALKYL  SUBSTANCES  (PFAS) FOR A PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM WHICH
    10  PROVIDES WATER TO THE PUBLIC FOR  HUMAN  CONSUMPTION  THROUGH  PIPES  OR
    11  OTHER  CONSTRUCTED  CONVEYANCES.    FOR  PURPOSES  OF  THIS SUBDIVISION,
    12  "PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM" MEANS A PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM AS DEFINED IN 10 NYCRR
    13  5-1.1(CB) AND INCLUDES A  COMMUNITY  WATER  SYSTEM,  NONCOMMUNITY  WATER
    14  SYSTEM,  TRANSIENT  NONCOMMUNITY WATER SYSTEM, NONTRANSIENT NONCOMMUNITY
    15  WATER SYSTEM AS DEFINED IN SUCH REGULATIONS AND ANY  SUBSEQUENT  UPDATES
    16  OF SUCH REGULATIONS BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.
    17    4.  It  is  hereby  found  and  declared that such purposes are in all
    18  respects for the benefit of the people of the state of New York and  the
    19  corporation  shall  be  regarded as performing an essential governmental
    20  function in carrying out its  purposes  and  in  exercising  the  powers
    21  granted by this title.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08106-01-5