S6286 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Establishes the agrivoltaics viability pilot program to provide grants to identify the best practices and strategies for agrivoltaics and dual-use solar energy projects that protect soil health during construction and decommissioning of solar arrays, utilize sustainable agricultural production practices, monitor any benefits solar energy may have on farms and to the state, track economic viability, study the commercialization of dual-use solar energy projects, and encourage equitable engagement of stakeholders.
- Title
- Establishes the agrivoltaics viability pilot program within the farmland viability program
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Senate Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-01-29
- In committee
- Finance
- Introduced
- 2025-03-07
- Active version
- S6286A
- Same as
- A7584
- Law section
- Public Authorities Law
Sponsors
Co-sponsors
Heard in committee
- Ways and Means NY State Assembly committee
- Agriculture NY State Senate committee
- Finance NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A7584 (2025-26 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Agriculture, 2026-01-29 Referred to committee; referred to Finance
- Finance, 2025-05-13 First reading
- Agriculture, 2025-04-08 Referred to committee; referred to Finance