A 5908 — Authorizes local municipalities and political subdivisions to have final say on if a renewable energy power plant can be sited in such municipalities or political subdivision's jurisdiction

Congress · introduced 2025-02-24

Authorizes local municipalities and political subdivisions to have final say on if a renewable energy power plant can be sited in such municipalities' or political subdivisions' jurisdiction; establishes conflict of interest standards for approving the siting of a renewable energy power plant in a local municipality or political subdivision; requires the office of renewable energy siting and electric transmissions establish a database to collect and display host agreements and land contracts for renewable energy power plants; establishes contract standards concerning the forfeiture of mineral rights for the siting of renewable energy power plants; regulates the conduct of businesses engaged in the conduct of selling renewable energy power plants.

Latest action: 2026-01-07 — IN_ASSEMBLY_COMM

Action timeline

2025-02-24 · assembly — REFERRED TO ENERGY
2026-01-07 · assembly — REFERRED TO ENERGY

Text versions

Introduced · 2025-02-24 — HTML · Text

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Inbound (16)

date	from	type	amount	role	source
2025-02-24	Eric Brown	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2025-02-24	Daniel Norber	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2025-02-24	Matthew Simpson	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2025-02-24	John Lemondes	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2025-02-24	Brian Manktelow	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2025-02-24	Jerett Gandolfo	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2025-02-24	Joe Angelino	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2025-02-24	Jeff Gallahan	sponsor_of_bill	—	sponsor	sponsorship
2025-02-24	Karl Brabenec	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2025-02-24	Kenneth Blankenbush	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2025-02-24	Joseph Sempolinski	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2025-02-24	Paula Bologna	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2025-02-24	Christopher Friend	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2025-02-24	Lester Chang	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2025-02-24	Stephen Hawley	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2025-02-24	Angelo J. Morinello	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#	Member	Role	Voted	Score
1	Jeff Gallahan (—, state_lower NY-131)	sponsor	—	5
2	Angelo J. Morinello (—, state_lower NY-145)	cosponsor	—	1
3	Brian Manktelow (—, state_lower NY-130)	cosponsor	—	1
4	Christopher Friend (—, state_lower NY-124)	cosponsor	—	1
5	Daniel Norber (—, state_lower NY-16)	cosponsor	—	1
6	Eric Brown (—, state_lower NY-20)	cosponsor	—	1
7	Jerett Gandolfo (—, state_lower NY-7)	cosponsor	—	1
8	Joe Angelino (—, state_lower NY-121)	cosponsor	—	1
9	John Lemondes (—, state_lower NY-126)	cosponsor	—	1
10	Joseph Sempolinski (—, state_lower NY-148)	cosponsor	—	1
11	Karl Brabenec (—, state_lower NY-98)	cosponsor	—	1
12	Kenneth Blankenbush (—, state_lower NY-117)	cosponsor	—	1
13	Lester Chang (—, state_lower NY-49)	cosponsor	—	1
14	Matthew Simpson (—, state_lower NY-114)	cosponsor	—	1
15	Paula Bologna (—, state_lower NY-144)	cosponsor	—	1
16	Stephen Hawley (—, state_lower NY-139)	cosponsor	—	1

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.

2025-02-24 · cosponsored by Joe Angelino (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2025-02-24 · cosponsored by John Lemondes (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2025-02-24 · cosponsored by Lester Chang (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2025-02-24 · cosponsored by Christopher Friend (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2025-02-24 · cosponsored by Brian Manktelow (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2025-02-24 · cosponsored by Kenneth Blankenbush (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2025-02-24 · sponsored by Jeff Gallahan (sponsor) · sponsorship
2025-02-24 · cosponsored by Karl Brabenec (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2025-02-24 · cosponsored by Paula Bologna (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2025-02-24 · cosponsored by Stephen Hawley (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2025-02-24 · cosponsored by Joseph Sempolinski (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2025-02-24 · cosponsored by Eric Brown (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2025-02-24 · cosponsored by Jerett Gandolfo (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2025-02-24 · cosponsored by Daniel Norber (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2025-02-24 · cosponsored by Angelo J. Morinello (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2025-02-24 · cosponsored by Matthew Simpson (cosponsor) · sponsorship

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