New York Senate Bill S01338

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

• Introduced: 1/9/25
• Refer: 1/9/25
• Refer: 1/7/26

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Relates to emerging technology industrial classifications for clean environment and energy technologies.

Summary

S01338 amends the Public Authorities Law to expand the state’s definition of “emerging technology” industrial classifications. The bill keeps the existing category for remanufacturing technologies and adds a new category for “clean environment and energy technologies.” That new category covers technologies involving innovative pollution reduction methods, renewable energy generation or storage, and energy efficiency measures, including smart grid systems and automated or computerized energy control systems that use digital technology to improve electric system efficiency, reliability, and security. In practical terms, the bill would update the statutory framework used by state authorities and related programs that rely on emerging technology classifications. By expressly recognizing clean energy, pollution reduction, and advanced grid technologies, it could make more projects and businesses eligible for state support, incentives, or program participation where these classifications matter. The bill takes effect immediately and does not create a new regulatory program; rather, it broadens the list of technologies already recognized under state law.

Impact

The bill would amend section 3102-e of the Public Authorities Law to add clean environment and energy technologies to the state’s existing emerging technology industrial classifications. This could affect how state agencies, public authorities, and economic development programs identify qualifying industries for financing, assistance, or other benefits tied to emerging technologies. It may also influence which firms in renewable energy, energy storage, smart grid, and pollution control sectors are treated as eligible under state programs.

Sentiment

The available record shows no committee transcript, vote tally, or recorded opposition, so there is no direct evidence of debate or controversy in the materials provided. Based on the bill’s subject matter, the measure appears to be framed as a pro-innovation and pro-clean-energy update to existing law. The absence of recorded votes or discussion suggests the bill had not yet generated a documented public sentiment in the provided materials.

Contention

No specific points of contention are documented in the provided materials. Potential areas of debate, if the bill were considered further, could include how broadly “clean environment and energy technologies” should be defined, whether the expanded classification could be used too expansively for program eligibility, and how state authorities would apply the new category in practice. However, none of these concerns are attributed to any legislator, agency, or stakeholder in the record supplied here.